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Jan. 18th, 2011 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucoI'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...
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I don't think I'll ever forget it.
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.
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Date: 2011-01-18 06:03 pm (UTC)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