Honor Well Deserved

AP reports that 20,000 police officers from around the globe turned out for the funeral of 35-year-old, Jamaican-born NYPD officer Dillon Stewart, who was shot through the heart during a November 28 traffic stop.

Another account of this man's funeral is here.

Blogical Positivist is glad to see this astonishing outpouring of solidarity in the face of an unspeakably ugly crime. God bless the thin blue line which protects us from people like the one who took the life of this policeman. And thanks to each officer and department for showing up in such force that we're reminded that protecting innocent lives is not necessarily a losing battle.

May the angels bear NYPD Officer Stewart to Paradise, and comfort his wife, and protect his 6-year-old daughter Alexis and his 5-month-old daughter Samantha.

And may justice be done to his assailant, whose name, from all indications, is Allan Cameron.