DART officer Brent Thompson was confirmed to be one of the fatalities in the Dallas police shootings in which 11 officers were shot during protests against police use of excessive force.
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Dallas PD officers killed in the shooting: Senior Cpl.
Sgt. Michael Smith, 55, was a 27-year Dallas police veteran.
Richmond Police Deputy Chief Steve Drew told the Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/29DOvJE) that people have left bouquets of flowers at the statue in Byrd Park in the memory of the five officers killed last week by a black sniper in Dallas.
A funeral service for Thompson, a newlywed, was held Wednesday afternoon in Corsicana, south of Dallas.
Hundreds of officers from across the country – including departments in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and Ahrens’ hometown of Simi Valley, Calif. – attended Ahrens’ funeral today at Prestonwood Baptist Church.
Another public memorial in Dallas Thursday for one of the five officers gunned down last week.
This is especially worrying, Chimurenga said, as racialized police violence escalates, and there is at least a possibility that officers will try “to carry out their white supremacist agendas with impunity”.
Funerals will be held Wednesday for Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. She concluded with a message about her husband’s killer, “To the coward that tried to break me and my brothers and sisters…know you’re hate made us stronger”.
Sheriff Spoden says since the Honor Guard headed down to Dallas, they have had the most new facebook post likes as the members show off pictures of their visit.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson, 43, was a father of six and married his wife, Emily, a fellow DART officer, just weeks ago, on June 21.
The teenage son of a black man killed by white police officers is speaking out for the first time, telling reporters gathered at the Triple S convenience store where his father died that he wants everyone “to protest the right way, protest in peace”. “We’re hurting. Our profession is hurting”, Brown said. A candlelight vigil and march for the fallen officers took place this week in downtown Frisco, where over 1,000 people attended including many Frisco PD officers. He served as an Army ranger before becoming a Dallas officer.
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Johnson said that this was probably the largest event he’d ever seen while on the job, but what stood out the most was “the hundreds and hundreds of people we saw lined up and waving flags alongside the roads”. She said that the some of these officers helped her by bringing her to the hospital when the rape incident happened and they offered her relief when she was homeless and very poor.
