Who were the five police officers assassinated in Dallas?

[MH1]

I posted a thread for each in LBN. Because there was a thread about the shooter, and I felt that if the shooter got a thread, each of the people he killed should get one too.

While all the LBN threads I posted use WaPo eulogies as a source, I'm not going to claim that each of these was a "hero" or any perfect model of what a police officer should be. On the other hand, we don't know that they weren't. We do know that they left families and other loved ones behind. We know that they were assassinated without trial, just like Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Victims

Thread for each deceased victim:

Lorne Ahrens: Slain Dallas Officer Lorne Ahrens was out of surgery when something went wrong
Michael Krol: ‘It doesn’t seem real’: Family of slain Dallas officer mourns ‘big guy’ with ‘big heart’
Michael Smith: ‘One of the good guys’: Michael Smith had been a Dallas police officer for 25 years
Brent Thompson: Brent Thompson married fellow transit officer weeks before dying in Dallas shooting
Patrick Zamarripa: Officer Patrick Zamarripa survived three tours in Iraq before being killed in Dallas

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Can you try a little harder? You're purpose is failing to get noticed.

[MH1]

3. ???

[SMC22307]

4. Yeah, I'm not sure what *you're* purpose is...

but I (obviously) noticed your OP.

[MH1]

5. My "purpose", by the way, is that there was a lengthy thread about the shooter, and nothing for the

victims.

WaPo had a good article about Zamarripa, who sounds like he was a pretty cool guy, and this must be a tragic loss to his family and the community. I thought it needed to be posted. Then I thought, heck I should post all of them if I am going to post one. When I got to the fourth I thought, well this really belonged in GD, not LBN, so after doing #5 I'll go do one thread for all of them in GD.

After a tough week, a really tough day, too much caffeine today and a bit of alcohol this evening to knock that back, that's really all there was to it. I am just sick and tired of all the killing. On all sides. If you think I have some other agenda or point of view - you do not know me.

[840high]

6. Thank you for posting.

[MH1]

8. You're welcome.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. RIP

[Thinkingabout]

7. Thanks for sharing, all lost lives are hard, we must not forget.

[Person 2713]

9. I didn't catch the other posts but this has good reads on the victims

Rec

[Upthevibe]

10. Yes, MH1' thank you for posting. What you said is certainly true. N/T

[OhioChick]

11. Thanks for posting