-Cp
03-29-2009, 12:08 AM
Mourners from across the country packed Oracle Arena to the rafters Friday, as the city and nation said a heavy-hearted goodbye to four Oakland police officers fatally shot in the line of duty March 21.
The funeral service for Sgts. Mark Dunakin, 40, of Tracy, Erv Romans, 43, of Danville, Daniel Sakai, 35, of Castro Valley, and motorcycle Officer John Hege, 41, of Concord, was attended by the state's highest elected officials and at least 10,000 police officers, and came at the end of perhaps the saddest week in Oakland Police Department history.
"Never in the entire 160 years of the Oakland Police Department has there
been a darker day than March 21, 2009, when (the four officers) died in the course of their efforts to remove a dangerous criminal from our streets," said U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Feinstein joined others in calling the slain officers "heroes" who paid the ultimate price in their quest to keep the people of Oakland safe.
"Every day that they suited up for work, they knew it might be their last," Feinstein said. "They knew they were outnumbered, outgunned and, all too often, underappreciated. But they still dedicated their lives to the cause of public safety and justice, and, in the end, they died for it."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/oakland-police-shooting/ci_12013670
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The funeral service for Sgts. Mark Dunakin, 40, of Tracy, Erv Romans, 43, of Danville, Daniel Sakai, 35, of Castro Valley, and motorcycle Officer John Hege, 41, of Concord, was attended by the state's highest elected officials and at least 10,000 police officers, and came at the end of perhaps the saddest week in Oakland Police Department history.
"Never in the entire 160 years of the Oakland Police Department has there
been a darker day than March 21, 2009, when (the four officers) died in the course of their efforts to remove a dangerous criminal from our streets," said U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Feinstein joined others in calling the slain officers "heroes" who paid the ultimate price in their quest to keep the people of Oakland safe.
"Every day that they suited up for work, they knew it might be their last," Feinstein said. "They knew they were outnumbered, outgunned and, all too often, underappreciated. But they still dedicated their lives to the cause of public safety and justice, and, in the end, they died for it."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/oakland-police-shooting/ci_12013670
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