Posted on 12/08/2009 12:46:59 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Thousands participated Tuesday in a procession to the memorial for four murdered Washington state police officers, which about 20,000 mourners were expected to attend.
Pierce County officials said 2,000 police and fire vehicles from more than 150 agencies joined the procession to the Tacoma Dome service for the victims of a coffee shop shooting.
Vehicles left McChord Air Force Base at 10 a.m. Tuesday on a route past the Lakewood Police Department to be joined by Lakewood police and families of the murdered Lakewood officers.
Maurice Clemmons who gunned down Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42 was killed Dec. 2 in a shootout with a Seattle police officer after a two-day manhunt.
The procession route takes participants under a large American flag hanging from arching fire truck ladders. Officials estimated most of the 20,000 people in the Tacoma Dome for the 1 p.m. PST service would be officers.
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It makes me so sad that so few FReepers care about this.
This is the time to honor the fallen. Get it?
bump for home
Well, at least it can give him a lesson about what GOOD police mean to us, as opposed to other kinds of police:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/13066197.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/170556_brame24.html
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/31308239.html
http://www.mnddc.org/news/inclusion-daily/2006/07/071706wazehmabuse.htm
After today’s service I feel more anger. That a piece of scum took those fine officers. It should have never happened.
What is your POINT?! The thread is about the memorial service for the 4 Lakewood police officers who were executed, NOT a forum for the score YOU are keeping on cops you don’t like: Start your own thread for that. Take your axe and grind it elsewhere.
This should never have happened, Vicki, because both Arkansas AND Washington had the opportunity to put the perp away forever and did not do it. They failed the people and the police, and should resign and/or drop out of politics. For Huckabee to carry on like this is a blip on the radar is despicable.
Police officers from around the country and from Canada recognized that this was an attack on all of them. Has anyone in leadership in our nation spoken up for them?
They always feel sorry, poor guy didn't have a chance, oh he had a bad childhood, you know all the usual excuses. Come on, if that was the case, at least half of us would be criminals just based on our childhoods.
I do wonder how people can be such suckers. I’ve always had street smarts, could size up a phony, but some are so naive no matter what... I don’t get it.
Bad childhood is not an excuse, poverty is not an excuse, disability is not an excuse, for criminal behavior of any kind. Period, end of story. I don’t understand the moral equivocation these liberals indulge in.
Nor do I understand how Huckabee was so suckered by the “I’ve been saved” routine.
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