For being a police officer? Why?
First of all, I don't know the circumstances of his/her death. Second of all, I'm one of the first people to stick up for police officers but there is a serious double standard when it comes to treatment of the ordinary police officer who works the street, from those that work for the government. We've seen it at the FBI, the DOJ, etc. Nobody wants to release the identity of yesterday's shooter. He's being protected. The crime will be covered up, and that will be the end of it. He'll likely be allowed to retire and disappear into the woodwork. Compare that to the poor slob who works the beat on the street in a large Dem-controlled city, and shoots an armed perp in self defense. Because of those double standards, I'm claiming the right to have a double-standard when it comes to the amount of sympathy I express when it comes to street cops vs. federal cops.