it is a very depressing thread for LE supporters. Here you have a heroic officer, crawling into an overturned car, that could catch fire at any time, and he is shot 14 times, for no reason.
It is very scary and depressing for those with loved ones and family members on the job. It increases the level of potential fear on the job too.
Yes, it is so depressing for those who support our police officers. I haven't been able to post anything until now once I saw the beautiful photo of the officer with his 5 year old son on his first day of school. Every time I think about it even now I cry more tears for this sweet little boy who will never see his Daddy again nor be able to hold his hand ever again.
Since Lt. Allan was murdered there has been four more officers shot and wounded in the line of duty. There will probably be more by the end of the day or week.
Yesterday I had an event of my own that made my heart freeze. I got a breaking news alert that there had been an officer involved shooting in our county where one of our grandsons is a Sgt with the Sheriff's office. I was shaking all over when I immediately called my daughter in law asking her if she knew if Drake was involved. At the time no one knew about the situation or if the Deputy was shot or they had shot someone else. She had already called him for she got the alert too and he had taken the day off but was being called in to assist with the crime scene. He had taken off yesterday because it was his fiancee's birthday and he had a big day planned for her.
The relief was so intense it also left me shaking like a leaf then I waited impatiently to get updates from our local news station. By then a neighbor had put up a video on the FB local news feed and the man who was shot had a large knife and you could hear the Deputy telling him over and over again to put it down but instead he charged at the officer and then he fired two shots. The man was injured but is going to survive. The neighbor who videoed it said if the man had been able to attack the Deputy he was ready to stop him with his own gun in order to protect the officer from being seriously injured or worse. Thank goodness there are still many good people who are more than willingly to help an officer if they see them in a dangerous situation.
I cant begin to imagine what it feels like for all of the wives, children, parents, or other grandparents and all loved ones of police officers who never know if it will be the last day they ever see them alive or worrying if they will be assaulted.
Life is so uncertain for our officers now and the most simple benign duties they do may lead to them being murdered or assaulted.
All I know is we pray for Drake's safety each and every day but the worry is always in the back of our minds even though we support him fully for honorably serving his community which is what he has always wanted to do.
Cops have been ambushed without even knowing someone was close by getting ready to take their lives. It isn't about the total amount of officers who are murdered, and killed, but its about each officer not ever knowing if it will be 'them' on any given day.
Its like putting deadly poisoned MMs in a large basket filled with hundreds of regular MMs and never knowing which one is tainted and which ones are not. It amazes me at the emotional/mental pressure they must endure yet they get up each and every day to serve and protect knowing all too well that none of them are immune and any one of them could be THE ONE who loses their life on any given day.
Prayers for the family of a wonderful police officer/human being who was cruelly murdered trying to help those in need.
JMO
