Services were held for Dallas Police Sergeant Michael Smith, Dallas Police Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens and Dallas Area Rapid Transit Officer, Brent Thompson a day after top officials gathered in Dallas for a memorial service.
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Sgt. Smith, 55, was one of five officers gunned down in an ambush on law enforcement a week ago in downtown Dallas. “Please keep all police, in Dallas and across America, in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with the consequences of that awful night, ” his family said.
The gunman, Micah Johnson, 25, who was later blown up by a bomb delivered by a police robot, said he was upset about the recent shootings and wanted to kill white police officers.
The final funeral will be held for Patrick Zamarripa at the Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center, in Fort Worth at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Thousands crammed into The Potter’s House church in Dallas for Thompson’s service on Wednesday.
Ahrens’ funeral will take place in Plano.
He said the officers were killed while “upholding the constitutional rights of this country”.
Reserved seats contain American flags and police hats during an interfaith memorial service, honoring five slain police officers, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
Since Tuesday night, Dallas police have buried their five slain colleagues, one funeral following the other in quick and numbing succession. You weren’t alone. I had your back, as you always had ours.”Sam Eichenwald for NewsweekA father carries his daughter to the edge of the blockade in downtown Dallas, near Bank of America Plaza, while police investigate the crime scene”. I know how far we’ve come against impossible odds. Brent and Emily were married just two weeks before he was killed. 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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“Over the last couple of days, I felt that the community has grown much stronger”, Dallas resident Vicki Cartwright said. The former US Army Ranger joined the Dallas PD in 1989 and once earned a “Cops’ Cop” award from the Dallas Police Association, ABC News reported.
