DOWNEY TO HONOR ITS POLICE DEPARTMENT’S ONLY FALLEN OFFICER
By Herald American
The only Downey Police Department officer to lose his life in the line of duty will be honored with a monument outside City Hall that will be unveiled during a ceremony on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. The sculpture, called “The Grieving Officer,” will show a life-sized six-foot sculpture of an officer kneeling with his forehead resting on his hand.
Motorcycle officer Wayne Presley, 37, was fatally injured April 10, 1981, when he parked his motorcycle to help a motorist and was struck by a car driven by a drunk driver, Police Chief Rick Esteves said. The City Council approved the $90,000 monument last year at the suggestion of the Police Department.
Esteves said $60,000 will come from the city’s Art In Public Places Fund while the remaining $30,000 will come from the Police Department’s Assets Forfeiture Fund. That’s from police confiscation of illegal money or materials.
Born Jan. 18, 1944, Presley served in the U.S. Navy from 1961 to 1972, when he joined the Los Angeles Police Department. He left Los Angeles for the Downey department in 1973.
Presley left a wife, Linda, and three children.
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Honor is due. Rest in peace, Officer Presley.
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The sculpture, called “The Grieving Officer,” will show a life-sized six-foot sculpture of an officer doing knee drops on the throat of a handcuffed homeless person.”
One day, Ruehle, you will be held to answer for the many despicable things you choose to say. In the meantime I will pray for you, and ask God to grant you far more wisdom than you routinely demonstrate.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels
“If the police tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the police can withhold from the people the description of events, officer’s names and evidence of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the Police to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the Police.” — Mike Ruehle
Ruehle emulating Joseph Goebbels. Now THATS appropriate!