The memorials come a day after President Barack Obama traveled to Dallas – at the invitation of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings – to comfort mourners at a joint, interfaith memorial service and to challenge them to “reject despair” and to pray for each other.
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“For a while the protest went on without incident – and despite the fact that police conduct was the subject of the protest, despite the fact that there must have been signs or slogans or chants with which they profoundly disagreed, these men and this department did their jobs like the professionals that they were”, the president said.
Officers from all over the world, including from Portland, are in Dallas, Texas to pay their respects to the officers killed on July 7.
“Anytime another officer falls, we lose a brother or sister, and it’s just like losing a family member”, explained Lt. Paul Robeson, who oversees the Honor Guard.
The message delivered by one of Officer Thompson’s six children was heartbreaking.
The officers slain in Dallas last week were patrolling a demonstration decrying the killings by police of Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, outside St. Paul, Minnesota.
He’ll be remembered during a service at The Potter’s House from 10 a.m.to 1 p.m.
Smith joined the Dallas police force in 1989.
The first funeral services were held on Wednesday for three of the five policemen that were shot during a protest in Dallas.
Law enforcement officers salute the casket of Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, at Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery, Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Dallas.
The Honor Guard members are giving out heartfelt law enforcement tokens of kindness to officers in Dallas, everything from patches to challenge coins. Those will be held on Friday and Saturday.
Brent Thompson was one of five Officers killed during an ambush in Dallas, Texas.
“I know many of you have dealt with these things quite often”, pastor Rick Lamb of Northside Baptist Church told the crowd.
Johnson was killed when authorities used a robot to detonate an explosive as negotiations faltered.
DART Officer Brent Thompson, 43, was a father and had been married for two weeks to a fellow DART officer when he was killed.
Three thousand packed the church for officer Thompson’s funeral.
Both girls share an unwanted bond – they had lost their fathers, killed so senselessly while in the line of duty.
Protests against police violence continued on Wednesday.
Zamarripa, 32, served in Iraq before joining the Dallas Police Department.
A public service was scheduled on Thursday for Smith at a Dallas church where he worked security. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Ahrens was known as a gentle giant and a voracious reader whose intelligence was equal to his size.
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A Catholic mass was held for a third officer, Michael Smith, whose funeral is being held today.
