It touched my cold icy heart so unless you are colder than me, you should be inspired too. I made this video because The presentation in the cold, cavernous county lobby represented a police officers life and death.
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The Miami Dade County PBA each year puts up a memorial to their fallen in the lobby of County Hall. They have a T Shirt with the name of each police officer that has died in the line of duty. It goes up around contract talk time, people forget what a dangerous job this is. Their memorial inspired me to do this video. NOW WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO, IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO DO BECAUSE THEY SPREAD IT OUT ALL OVER THE LOBBY. IT IS ONLY A FEW MINUTES OUT OF YOUR TIME TO WATCH IT.
This is a list of the 138 who gave their lives in the line of duty:
Rhett McGregor, Deputy Sheriff
Dade County Sheriff's Office
Aug. 12, 1895
Gustav A. Kaiser, Jailer
Dade County Sheriff's Office
Aug. 24, 1895
Wilbur W. Hendrickson, Deputy Sheriff
Dade County Sheriff's Office
June 2, 1915
John Rhinehart Riblet, Officer
Miami Police Department
June 2, 1915
Allen Butler Henderson, Deputy Sheriff
Metro-Dade Police Department
Sept. 16, 1916
William Z. Henderson, Deputy Sheriff
Metro-Dade Police Department
Sept. 16, 1916
Charles R. Williams, Deputy Sheriff
Metro-Dade Police Department
Sept. 16, 1916
Frank Angelo Croff, Officer
Miami Police Department
May 22, 1921
Richard R. Marler, Officer
Miami Police Department
Nov. 28, 1921
Charles D. Bryant, Town Marshal
Homestead Police Department
June 15, 1923
Dillon Duncan Brooke, Corrections Officer
Miami-Dade Corrections Department
Oct. 21, 1924
Laurie Lafayette Wever, Sergeant
Miami Police Department
March 15, 1925
Hubert Carl Paul, Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 4, 1925
John D. Marchbanks, Officer
Miami Police Department
Feb. 16, 1926
Samuel J. Callaway, Officer
Miami Police Department
Jan. 10, 1927
Jesse L. Morris, Officer
Miami Police Department
July 8, 1927
Albert R. Johnson, Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 25, 1927
James Franklin Beckham, Detective
Miami Police Department
Feb. 3, 1928
David Cecil Bearden, Officer
Miami Beach Police Department
March 20, 1928
Ralph G. Langworthy, Marshal
Fulford Marshal's Office
June 10, 1928
Augustus S. McCann, Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 26, 1928
Francis Cyril Guest, Sergeant
Coral Gables Police Department
Dec. 25, 1928
Sidney Clarence Crews, Officer
Miami Police Department
April 25, 1929
John I. Brubaker, Officer
Miami Police Department
March 31, 1933
Robert Lee Jester, Detective
Miami Police Department
Nov. 18, 1933
John Edward Dickson, Deputy Constable
State Attorney's Office
Dec. 24, 1933
William Lawrence Nichols, Officer
Miami Beach Police Department
Feb. 4, 1936
Samuel D. Hicks, Officer
Miami Police Department
August 9, 1936
Robert Boyle, Sergeant
Miami Beach Police Department
August 31, 1936
Homer Collins Barton, Sergeant
Coral Gables Police Department
June 6, 1938
Patrick Howell Baldwin, Officer
Miami Police Department
March 29, 1940
Wesley Frank Thompson, Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 18, 1941
Luther Paul Daniel, Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
Dec. 5, 1941
John Milledge, Officer
Miami Police Department
Nov. 1, 1946
Johnnie Young, Officer
Miami Police Department
March 7, 1947
Frampton P. Wichman, Jr., Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 24, 1948
Leroy Joseph Lafleur, Officer
Miami Police Department
Feb. 16, 1951
Luther T. Hardison, Constable
District 3 - Coral Gables
Feb. 17, 1951
James Herbert Brigman, Officer
Miami Police Department
Feb. 28, 1951
William Franklin Brantley, Chief
Homestead Police Department
March 17, 1952
Edward Emile Fritz, Jr., Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Feb. 3, 1953
Robert J. Staab, Lieutenant
Bal Harbour Police Department
Oct. 31, 1957
Billy Howard Stephens, Officer
Coral Gables Police Department
Nov. 23, 1957
John Thomas Burlinson, Officer
Miami Police Department
March 8, 1958
Leonard Claude Tribble, Officer
West Miami Police Department
Oct. 18, 1958
Jerome Roger Christman, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Dec. 3, 1960
Earl Lee Johnson, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Feb. 3, 1962
Jerrel Eugene Ferguson, Officer
Miami Police Department
Nov. 7, 1962
Carlos S. Stuteville, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Aug. 23, 1964
Owen Karl Bender, Captain
Florida Highway Patrol
Sept. 9, 1965
Hugo Max Becker, Detective
Hialeah Police Department
June 25, 1966
Paul G. Anderson, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
May 7, 1967
Walter Franklin Stathers, Officer
Coral Gables Police Department
Dec. 19, 1967
Ronald F. McLeod, Officer
Miami Police Department
May 8, 1969
Joseph O. Kephart, Sergeant
South Miami Police Department
Jan. 18, 1970
Rolland John Lane II, Officer
Miami Police Department
May 23, 1970
Victor Butler, Jr., Officer
Miami Police Department
Feb. 20, 1971
Johnny Edward Mitchell, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Dec. 31, 1971
Robert DeKorte, Officer
Coral Gables Police Department
Jan. 21, 1972
Frank Searcy, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
March 27, 1974
Harrison Crenshaw, Jr., Sergeant
Metro-Dade Police Department
May 18, 1974
Simmons Arrington, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
May 21, 1974
Nickolas Fragos, Special Agent
Drug Enforcement Administration
Aug. 5, 1974
Charles H. Mann, Special Agent
Drug Enforcement Administration
Aug. 5, 1974
Clark Hamilton Curlette, Detective
Metro-Dade Police Department
April 1, 1976
Francis Kenneth D'Azevedo, Detective
Metro-Dade Police Department
April 1, 1976
Thomas Allen Hodges, Jr., Detective
Metro-Dade Police Department
April 1, 1976
Bradley Steven Glascock, Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
August 4, 1977
Elmer Cecil Barnett, III, Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
Feb. 14, 1978
Louis Pena, Officer
Coral Gables Police Department
April 2, 1978
Alvin Vincent Kohler, Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
Sept. 19, 1978
William Coleman Cook, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
May 16, 1979
William Franklin Askew, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
July 24, 1979
Edward Francis McDermott, Lieutenant
Miami Police Department
May 18, 1980
Alfred William Terrinoni, Sergeant
Coral Gables Police Department
Oct. 12, 1980
Carl W. Mertes, Officer
North Miami Police Department
Nov. 5, 1980
Nathaniel K. Broom, Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 2, 1981
Edward Russell Young, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Sept. 23, 1981
Cheryl Weiner Seiden, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
July 28, 1982
Bjorn Thomas Svenson, Florida Parole
Florida Department of Corrections
Aug. 31, 1982
Ariel Rios, Special Agent
U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Dec. 2, 1982
Stephen Owen Corbett, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
May 28, 1983
Eddie Benitez, Special Agent
U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
July 12, 1983
Robert L. Zore, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Dec. 25, 1983
Donald Bernard Kramer, Sergeant
Miami Beach Police Department
Feb. 25, 1984
Jose DeLeon, Officer
Miami Police Department
Dec. 21, 1984
John Koppin, Officer
Miami Beach Police Department
Dec. 26, 1984
Robert E. Fitzpatrick, Officer
Miami Beach Police Department
April 3, 1985
John R. Melendez, Officer
Bal Harbour Police Department
Oct. 17, 1985
Jerry L. Dove, Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
April 11, 1986
Benjamin P. Grogan, Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
April 11, 1986
Ephriam Brown, Officer
Opa-locka Police Department
June 3, 1986
James Mathis Beasley, Jr., Officer
Sweetwater Police Department
June 25, 1986
David Wayne Herring, Officer
Miami Police Department
Sept. 3, 1986
Emilio Fidel Miyares, Officer
Hialeah Police Department
Nov. 6, 1986
Laverne Daniel Schulz, Officer
South Miami Police Department
Nov. 27, 1987
Victor Estefan, Officer
Miami Police Department
March 31, 1988
William Don Craig, Officer
Miami Police Department
June 21, 1988
Scott Richard Rakow, Officer
Miami Beach Police Department
June 30, 1988
Richard Allen Boles, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Nov. 28, 1988
David Henry Strzalkowski, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Nov. 28, 1988
Jose Teodoro Gonzalez, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
March 28, 1989
George Reyes Saenz, Jr., Special Agent
U.S. Customs Service
Nov. 2, 1989
Joseph Preston Martin, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
April 27, 1990
Thomas James Leis, Lieutenant
Metro-Dade Police Department
April 29, 1990
Charles Brian Stafford, Officer
Miami Springs Police Department
June 11, 1991
Donald Dante Thornbury, Officer
Miccosukee Police Department
Oct. 26, 1991
Steven Ernest Bauer, Sergeant
North Miami Police Department
Jan. 3, 1992
Robert H. Bonnett, Officer
Coral Gables Police Department
Jan. 17, 1992
Osvaldo Canalejo, Officer
Miami Police Department
Oct. 13, 1992
Pedro Antonio Cainas, Sergeant
Hialeah Police Department
Nov. 19, 1992
Evelyn Gort, Detective
Metro-Dade Police Department
Oct. 30, 1993
Lynette Anita Hodge, Sergeant
North Miami Police Department
Nov. 16, 1993
Carmen Gonzalez, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
Nov. 29, 1993
Meredith Thompson, Special Agent
Drug Enforcement Administration
Aug. 27, 1994
Leonard Trudeau, Corrections Officer
Metro-Dade Department of Corrections
Jan. 16, 1995
Carlos Santiago, Officer
Miami Police Department
May 30, 1995
Theodore J. Lozada, Corrections Officer
Miami-Dade Department of Corrections
Aug. 4, 1995
Robert Vargas, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
Feb. 7, 1997
Richard Wentlandt, Officer
Metro-Dade Police Department
March 15, 1997
Robert G. Smith, Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
July 26, 1997
Shaun E. Curl, Senior Special Agent
Drug Enforcement Administration
Dec. 12, 1997
Rueben I. Jones, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
Oct. 5, 1998
Roberto Calderon, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
Dec. 8,1999
Randall Ross Kugler, Detective
Miami-Dade Police Department
March 10, 2000
Michael D. McLane, Deputy Sergeant
Coral Gables Police Department
May 15, 2000
William Williams, Officer
Miami Police Department
July 3, 2000
Theodore Zorsky, Officer
Key Biscayne Police Department
Jan. 8, 2002
Nirza Rodriguez, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
May 5, 2003
Orestes J. Lorenzo, Officer
North Miami Police Department
July 9, 2004
Rosa I. Echevarria, Corrections Officer
Miami-Dade Department of Corrections
June 5, 2007
Jose Lazaro Somohano, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
Sept. 13, 2007
James Walker, Officer
Miami Police Department
Jan. 8, 2008
Giovanni Gonzalez, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
June 16, 2009
Patrick Ambroise, Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
May 15, 2010
Roger Castillo, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
Jan. 20, 2011
Amanda Haworth, Officer
Miami-Dade Police Department
Jan. 20, 2011
Tony Koga, Officer
Homestead Police Department
March 8, 2011
IT WAS THEIR DUTY TO SERVE. IT IS OURS TO REMEMBER.
13 comments:
Omg! Your best video ever. I almost cried. I wish I saw the exhibit.
I recommend: watch the damn video. GOD out did himself.
Heart wrenching. Thanks for recording it.
Beautiful.
As someone who loves a police officer, this scares me so much... It is a reminder of how delicate of a thread my life hangs on.
Thank you, dear friend.
At least 3 of those officers I knew from south dade. Each of those shirts represents a family destroyed, a squad devastated, a police department in shock, a neighborhood of an officer saddened and most of all, a community which lost a protector: an officer who cared to others first.
Always tell your officers Be Safe, God Bless and never, ever let them leave you without one more I love you.
GENIUS,JOB WELL DONE!!! GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES.
Thank you for taking the time to do this and sharing.... I think we all forget what REALLY matters...
Thank you , I appreciate the kind words
Genius: I knew 5 of these wonderful souls. May they all rest in peace.
Thank You for reminding us of the importance of life. Outstanding exhibit. This exhibit should travel throughout every city in Dade County so that the citizens can see it.
While I am grateful for the service of these officers, I am also cognizant that many other service occupations are more dangerous than law enforcement officer. Everyone who dies providing a necessary service to us should be honored but only soldiers and police officers and firefighters seem to get the fanfare. Being a police officer is statistically only the 15th most hazardous job. When we continually set up one group of people as making the biggest sacrifice to our society, it diminishes the others who get no honors, no fanfare, no benefits to their survivors, no comfortable pension after many long years of service. Many workers in America, with more hazardous jobs, provide very important and necessary benefits and services to our society, I would like to see them and their survivors get the same benefits as police officers and firefighters.
Well put up a memorial exhibition to some of these other dangerous jobs and I will do a video.
This a beautiful tribute to all our Fallen officers, thank you for posting this. Rest in Peace to all of them and to my fellow classmate Miami-Dade Police Department Amanda Haworth Jan. 20, 2011 #AKnightNeverToBeForgotten
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