“We bid you farewell, brother”, Castro called out as the other officers of the unit surrounded him, “Badge number 8193 is on a double 6”.
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“They want to do something for the families of all the fallen”, she said.
Dallas Police officer Lorne Ahrens was a 14-year veteran of the Dallas Police.
Before moving to Dallas, Ahrens was a member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, where he served for more than 10 years.
His parents say they are surprised by his violent rampage and note he returned from an Army deployment to Afghanistan a changed man.
“He got into law enforcement and worked really hard to be a police officer”.
Thompson had recently married another transit officer and had six grown children from a previous marriage. From the bottom left in clockwise order: Michael Smith, Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol and Lorne Ahrens. We were already in shock.
Dallas police said Senior Cpl. They ordered a taco truck, invited law enforcement to drop by for lunch, and put the money raised into a fund to send to the Dallas families.
The day before Ahrens, 48, was killed, he bought a homeless man dinner and encouraged fellow officers to greet the man, Jorge Barrientos, another Dallas police officer who was wounded, told the Dallas Morning News.
“This gentleman had some mental health issues, and was more upset than the average person probably would be”, recalled Zamarripa’s former partner, Officer Josh Rodriguez.
There was no doubt Hawthorne would be represented at the fundraiser.
Dallas Area Regional Transit (DART) Police Chief J.D. Spiller called on Dallas to lead the nation in having a discussion on race as well as supporting police officers. “They’re trying to get to where they were before this, before Thursday night”.
Over 1000 people today gathered to attend a candlelight vigil in honour of victims oflast week’s sniper attack in which five police officers were killed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.
His partner, Officer Joshua Rodriguez, described him as hard-working, a dedicated family man, and a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, and Dallas Mavericks.
Krol worked for the Wayne County sheriff’s office in the county jail system from 2003-2007, according to a statement. Link recognized Ahrens from her days working on sex crimes cases with detectives at the Lennox station.
“I just wanted him to be honored for the sacrifice he made”.
“We saw him as an equal, even when he was just starting out”, McWaid said.
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Sometimes it helps, he agreed, to unite for a meal.
