luco | (no subject)

I'm watching the funeral for Sgt. Russel right now. A Toronto Police Officer killed last week. It's haunting.

Toronto is silent. There are over 12 000 officers there, from all over Canada and a few from the States as well, all marching to the convention centre and it's shut down half the city, but no one has complained. No one on the streets has made any sort of fuss and people have just come out to stand in the rain and watch as an unending sea of uniforms pass through.

This doesn't often happen in Toronto. There are so many different cultures shoved in one place that police are not often respected at all. Well, our own culture and traditions are not often respected period. So to see this, when I know what this city is like and what it's capapble of well...

...

I don't think I'll ever forget it.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Those processions are always a sight to see. My dad was supposed to march in it, but he's got bronchitis.

Ottawa had one here last year for the cop that was killed while writing his report. It was simply amazing to watch and how everyone stopped and stood to watch him go by.

R.I.P Sgt. Russell

Wow that must be amazing to see.

I saw this in Pittsburgh once, for a funeral for three officers who were gunned down when they answered a domestic dispute call.

The roads were *packed* with police officers driving in to the city. I was walking to work and helped a non-police car merge into traffic. (The roads were so parked up the driver couldn't see to merge.) The out-of-state policemen in the car *after* that one laughed and called out, "Hey, that's our job!"

I grinned and answered "I thought you might like a break today," and they waved and drove on.

And just about everybody was like that, on that day.