Maybe We Should All Be Praying for Time?

 

Chicago cop fatally shot in West Englewood, second seriously injured and fighting for his life; third shooting suspect arrested Sunday

Two Chicago police officers were shot Saturday - one of them fatally - in West Englewood on the South Side, according to Chicago police.

By Jeremy Gorner and Paige Fry\

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The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7, the city’s largest police union, tweeted “Lord, please look over these two Officers, keep them and every Officer out in the 8th District safe tonight. This career of service we all chose is one of sacrifice, but please Lord, not tonight. Not tonight.”

Early Sunday on the Near West Side, dozens of police officers stood along Harrison and Leavitt streets outside the Cook County medical examiner’s office as the female officer’s body was slowly escorted into its dimly lit parking lot by a musical group playing the bagpipes — a tradition for a Chicago cop who dies in the line of duty.

With the roaring of a parked firetruck in the background, scores of officers saluted Chicago Fire Department Ambulance 36 as it moved slowly with its emergency lights flashing.

Some firefighters and paramedics paid their respects, too. Firetrucks stationed across Harrison from one another had their ladders hoisted in midair to the point where they were nearly adjoining, so they could together drape a large American flag in front of the procession for the ambulance.

Dozens of police vehicles, their blue emergency lights flashing, gave the initial escort for the ambulances to the medical examiner’s office from U. of C. hospital, where the officer was pronounced dead.

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Congressional Medals of Honor for all police officers across the nation killed in the line of duty.  Nevermind defunding, you can't pay people enough to protect the public.

 The officer who died was a 29-year-old woman who worked as a Chicago cop since April 2018, officials said. She was the first Chicago cop to be shot and killed in the line of duty since Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in 2019.

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Chicago Sun-Times

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