1babgirl28's Blog

As my husband and I sat and watched this horrible crash unfold on the news, we were appalled and disturbed to see what appeared to be a deceased body dangling from the waist by a rope from one of the fire trucks ladders and being dumped to the ground. What really made us mad is what we consider the unfair treatment of “regular deceased civilians” being placed on the dirt barely covered by white sheets for hours waiting to be taken by the coroner. However, when a “deceased LAPD officer” was found to be one of the casualties, she was removed on a backboard, properly covered by an American flag and immediately taken to a waiting ambulance, surrounded by hundreds of fellow officers.  I am not saying that our service men and women are not important, but when you see distraught families being kept away and not given any information as to the plight of their loved ones, it seems completely unfair. If one of those “regular deceased civilians” was one of my loved ones, I would be extremely pissed. When an officer is off duty they are just another “regular deceased civilian” and should be treated the same as anyone else, in a mass tragedy like this, special treatment should only be given when an officer is killed in the line of duty.

Truly, Annoyed in La Verne.