The massacre in Dallas, which left five police officers killed and 11 people injured, 9 police and 2 civilians, is now the deadliest attack on USA law enforcement since the 9/11 attacks on NY.
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The Chicago Police Department held a prayer vigil Thursday night for the officers killed in the Dallas Police sniper attack. He is the first DART officer killed in the line of duty.
His widow delivered a message of strength, saying: “To the coward that tried to break me and my brothers and sisters, know that your hate made us stronger”.
After a Dallas memorial service, Thompson’s funeral will be at a church in Corsicana, the town south of Dallas where he lived. Nine officers and two civilians were injured in the attack.
The five officers were killed by a former U.S. Army Reserve soldier who told police that he was angry about police killings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier that week and wanted to “kill white people”, especially police.
The family held a private service for Smith on Wednesday.
Smith joined the Dallas police force in 1989. It’s actually an award he won multiple times from the Dallas Police Association.
After the ceremony, a procession traveled from Plano to Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery on Greenville Avenue in Dallas.
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Thursday’s service is at Watermark Church in Dallas, where he worked part time as a security officer. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Ahrens was known as a gentle giant and a voracious reader whose intelligence was equal to his size.
