“When I was a young senator, a tractor-trailer broadsided my family Christmas shopping, killed my wife, killed my daughter”, he said. I know who you are. “Being a cop isn’t just what you do, it’s who you are”.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch has told community leaders in Baton Rouge that the Department of Justice will help their city overcome the violent tragedies that have shaken Louisiana’s state capital in the past month.
Airline JetBlue has been offering free tickets to police officers traveling to a police funeral, so Chavez happened to run into officers from Poughkeepsie, Yorktown, New Rochelle and other Lower Hudson Valley departments, among them Yorktown police Officer Samuel Sansone.
Several hundred people and dozens of law enforcement officers attended the vigil, where Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will also speak. “It can push us to do better”.
“We have to have to uproot hate and violence and replace it with peace and love”, the governor added.
The wives of the slain officers concluded the program.
East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said Garafola “went down fighting”, with surveillance video showing him firing at the gunman as bullets hit the concrete around him. “I got that phone call, that dreaded phone call you all got”.
“Rise your right hand and repeat after me. My mind would not allow me to wrap my thoughts around what my heart was already telling me”, said Garafola.
Garafola said that morning, she drove to the B-Quick Mart on Airline Highway where Brad did an extra duty assignment, and was initially told he was okay.
Each time they respond to a call or stop a vehicle, they know there’s always a chance that they are putting themselves in harm’s way.
The shooting comes with law enforcement officers around the country on alert following the killing of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this month. He was a guardian of our essential freedoms overseas in his role as both a Marine and as crew chief of an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Please see our terms of service for more information. “I have some big shoes to fill and to be honest I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to fill those shoes”.
Alexander and his friend could prove they weren’t involved in the shooting because they had a receipt showing they had purchased gas and snacks at a gas station about 100 miles west of Baton Rouge around the time Long opened fire on the police.
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Officer Montrell Jackson was a loving father and a pillar of his community whose life was a portrait of selflessness and devotion as well as a profile in courage. “My husband was a rare diamond, not even a billionaire could afford him”.
