A sea of blue is honoring a Michigan-born police officer killed in the line of duty.
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Funeral services are set to begin at 11 a.m. Krol, 40, will be laid to rest at Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery in Southfield Tuesday afternoon.
Krol moved to the Dallas area in 2007, after failing to find work as a police officer in Detroit.
He was killed July 7 in Dallas during an ambush by a man who was upset over recent police-involved shootings of African Americans and said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers, police said.
“I try to teach them hate without teaching them to hate”, Gregory said. “Words can not express how grateful we are for the sacrifice he and the other officers made to keep us safe”.
“All we can say is that we love you. They’re not here for a celebration, unfortunately”, she said.
“We wanted to show support to the people who protect us every day”, said Gregory.
“I just feel that it’s my obligation”. “It used to be if an officer said stop, you’d stop”.
“Mike grew up in MI and loved playing all sports, especially basketball where he excelled”, says Krol’s obituary.
According to Krol’s obituary, he graduated from East Long Meadow High School in MA in 1994.
After earning a criminal justice degree from Wayne County Community College in Detroit, he lived in Redford and worked at the Wayne County jail from 2002 to 2007. “He’s still my brother”, said Sgt. Stevan Miller with the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office. “His fun-natured spirit will last an eternity”. He graduated from the Dallas Police Academy in April 2008.
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder released a statement last week in which he memorialized the Michigan native, saying, “I was notified today that one of the fallen officers in Dallas is a Michigan native who previously worked in law enforcement in southeast Michigan”. After the service his body will be brought back to MI where he will be buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Southfield.
