Keep The Families Of These 2 In Your Thoughts...
Lounge By TooCuteRose Updated 19 Mar 2007 , 1:54am by cakes21
This is trully a tragedy...I wanted to cry after reading it...Usually I bring you all laughter and jokes...This is not the case...They did not get paid...They died doing something that took real heart...These two will hopefully be remembered for their courage...strength and love for their city...Many thoughts go to their families...One wasn't even from the US...they will be given full Officer's funerals...
http://www.policeone.com/news/1229314/
Very tragic.... I hurt everytime I hear something like that....
i hope that these 2 very brave individuals get the funeral that they deserve...
This is so very sad and the volunteers weren't even armed.
I hate hearing about incidents like this because my husband is a police officer and it just take one crazy person to go postal.... I don't know if it is harder to be a police officer or the wife of a police officer.
My son inlaw is a police officer in a small town here in N. California. They have had two officers shot and killed in the line of duty within 4 years. The last one, Officer Larry Lasiter was persuing a 19 year old who had robbed a bank located inside a grocery store. The robber ran for a field and fired on Officer Lasiter hitting him in the neck. He was on life support long enough to harvest his organs for transplant and then allowed to pass away. His wife was 7 months pregnant with their first child, a little boy named Cody who will grow up without his father. The young man who killed him was sentenced to life without parole, so his life, his families and Officer Lasiters families have all been destroyed. We live in a frightening world today.
The funeral for Officer Lasiter was the most moving tribute. You can't imagine the emotion of that motorcade to the cemetary, 1,000 officers from all over the United States came, and as the cortege travelled you saw patrol cars of every description for miles, headed by 100 police motorcycles, my son inlaw Rick was riding in front on Officer Lasiters bike, the roar and rumble of those bikes coming off the freeway exit and the many citizens standing on both sides of the street saluting them is something I will always remember. Rick was given escort duty of Officer Lasiters mother for the full week before the funeral. And my daughter being a manucurist did Mrs. Lasiters nails. Here she had lost her only child and after the funeral she came up to my daughter and hugged her and told her to be especially kind to Rick, he had had a difficult week.
Tragic irony too is that Officer Lasisters father had a small mom and pop grocery store when Larry was a young boy, and a robber shot and killed him in a holdup. So Larry knew what it was like to grow up without his dad, and now here is his child facing the same thing. And Mrs. Lasiter lost both her husband and her son to a senseless crime.
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