RIP



Deputy Barbara Pill (Brevard County Sheriff's Office Fla.)



WEST MELBOURNE --

One week after Brevard County Deputy Barbara Pill's life met a tragic end, thousands from across Central Florida and beyond packed a West Melbourne church to remember and celebrate her life and her 30-year career in law enforcement.

Pill was killed in the line of duty March 6. She was 52.

Calvary Church was filled to capacity by Pill's family, friends, fellow deputies and thousands of law enforcement officers from agencies all over Brevard County and elsewhere. Joining them were Brevard County Sheriff Jack Parker, Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, state Senate President Mike Haridopolos and mourners from as far south as Miami and as far north as New York.

As motorcycle by motorcycle and cruiser by cruiser rolled along the 9-mile procession route, hundreds of Space Coast citizens lined the streets, carrying flags and paying their own, personal tributes to the brave deputy who gave her life to keep her community safe.



Melbourne police Officer Ryan Pill, son of Brevard County Deputy Barbara Pill, recites a poem at his mother's funeral - Tuesday, March 13, 2012.



Thousands of officers and mourners gather outside Calvary Chapel, in West Melbourne, for the funeral of Brevard County Deputy Barbara Pill - Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

RIP Sgt. Ruben Thomas



age only 24, had 6 years in corrections. :(



Inmate Richard Franklin and Sgt. Ruben Thomas


News4Jax
LAKE CITY, Fla. -
A Department of Corrections officer was stabbed to death by an inmate Sunday night at a state prison near Lake City.

Ken Tucker, secretary of the Department of Corrections, told Channel 4 Sgt. Rueben Thomas was attacked by an inmate just before 10 p.m. Sunday at the Columbia Correctional Institute annex.

Tucker said Thomas was in one of the wings of a dorm checking on an inmate when a control room officer saw inmate Richard Franklin chase and then stab Thomas several times in the neck with a handmade weapon.

Thomas was taken to Shands-Lakeshore Hospital in Lake City, where he died.

"There will be lots of support for his family," Tucker said. "Chaplains were brought in to help the staff work through this. They lost more than a co-worker, they lost a friend."

Tucker said that a second officer, William Brewer, was trying to lock down inmates when Franklin swung something heavy in a sock, striking Brewer in the eye. Brewer was also taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.

Franklin, 37, was serving a life sentence on several charges including murder and battery on a law enforcement officer. Tucker said he will be transferred to a maximum security prison and the incident will be investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
WHY WASN'T HE IN A MAX PRISON ALREADY??

Thomas had a young daughter and was engaged to be married.

"A lot of people don't realize how dangerous their jobs are," Tucker said. "Every day they're running behind fences, dealing with inmates such as inmate Franklin who are in there for murder and robbery."

RIP



The Austin Texas department identified the slain officer as Senior Police Officer Jaime Padron, 41.

(04-13-2012, 06:07 AM)JsMom Wrote: Jeezus! What the fuck is wrong with people. This thread is so heartwrenching.

re: post 210

RIP
Police Chief Michael Maloney



Police Chief Michael Maloney was shot and killed while serving a drug-related search warrant with officers from the Attorney General's Drug Task Force shortly after 6:00 p.m. A subject in the home opened fire with a rifle, killing Chief Maloney and wounding four other officers.

The subject barricaded in the house following the shooting. He and a female were found dead several hours later after a SWAT team forced entry into the home.

Chief Maloney has served in law enforcement for 26 years and served with the Greenland Police Department since 2000. He was eight days from retirement.

A man suspected of killing a New Hampshire police chief and wounding four other officers was found dead along with a female acquaintance early Friday, ending an overnight standoff that plunged a small town into fear and grief.

RIP






MODESTO, Calif. -- A sheriff's deputy and another man trying to serve an eviction notice at a Modesto apartment complex were shot dead Thursday morning by a man who holed up and began an 11-hour standoff, surrounded by a battalion of SWAT teams.

At 10 p.m., there were reports of a fire on the second floor of the two-story unit. Firefighters reportedly could not respond because of the danger.

About an hour earlier, a team of four officers, quickly followed by two more, rushed in on the apartment. Loud bangs from concussive devices could be heard from down the street. Officers used loud speakers to communicate with a man they called "Jimmy," asking him to "pick up the phone" and assuring him he would not be harmed.

No one came out.

Earlier in the afternoon, officers broke the windows of the apartment with bean bags, then shot tear gas into the unit.

The standoff began right after the shootings occurred about 11 a.m. Dozens of neighbors were evacuated to a nearby church.

About 6:30 p.m., the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department identified the deputy killed as Robert Paris, 53, a 16-year veteran of the force. The other victim's name was being withheld pending notification of his relatives.

A man who lives nearby the shooting site and did not give his name said the deputy and the man with him apparently were drilling through the lock on the apartment door in the 2100 block of Chrysler Drive when the suspect fired at them from inside.