The Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy killed on Sunday last week ran to help another officer when he could have stayed safe in the convenience store where he was working off-duty, a minister said at his funeral on Saturday.
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The department announced their trip on their Facebook page.
Montrell Jackson, one of three officers who were ambushed and killed in the July 17 shooting in the Louisiana city.
Saturday afternoon, a service was held in a Baton Rouge church, live streamed on several TV stations and websites.
“It’s to show that we are a huge family”. Richmond, D-New Orleans, said leaders “have to initiate the conversation” about how to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the black community. “What would we do as a community if we had no police officers in this world?” said Vaughn-Fredericksen.
Members of the Dallas Police Department and the East Baton Rouge. “That’s what hurts the most”, he said, crying. “That could be my wife”.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said strength and courage seem to have defined Garafola’s life, including his final moments.
Seattle’s Honor Guard will be uniting with the Baton Rouge Police Department Honor Guard to participate in Jackson’s funeral as one large contingent.
The 41-year-old Gerald was among three law enforcement officers who were killed Sunday outside of a convenience store while investigating a report of a man with a gun.
His brother-in-law, Jaye Cooper, said people called Garafola the neighborhood husband because he cut grass, caught snakes and did other chores around the neighborhood.
“The only thing I can do is tell them just be careful, watch each other’s backs and don’t get side tracked”, Mason said. They’re trying to get money to city, parish and state law enforcement to repay some of their expenses for responding to the protests after Sterling’s death and the shootings of their officers.
The men also said they’re looking at the funding available for survivor payments for the families of the slain police officers and sheriff’s deputy.
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(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid J. Gautreaux, III kneels and places his hand on the casket of deputy Brad Garafola, after it was transferred from carriage to hearse, at the scene where Garafola and two Baton Rouge police were ki. “This is a attractive display of a community coming together, not just family and the community in Baton Rouge, but law enforcement, brothers and sisters in uniform”, Edwards said. “We will take it from here”.
