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Racist Karens and their “Blue Lives Matter” Cop-suckery. Lets not forget this.

LOCAL, its interesting that the capital journal has basically buried this story and removed it from their search engines making it harder and harder to find. As if someone is now embarrassed of it. Of special note is that Sherman Smith was the editor at the time.

Police families gather at Statehouse to support their husbands, fathers

Photos will go online

Megan Hart

Supporters of Topeka and Shawnee County law enforcement officers showed them in a way the public rarely sees — embracing their wives and wrangling their kids.

About 50 family members of law enforcement officers in the Topeka area gathered Sunday evening on the east side of the Statehouse for a photo shoot in support of their loved ones. Robin Block, who is married to Topeka police Sgt. Steven Block and organized the event, said families were representing Topeka Police, the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office and Kansas Highway Patrol.

A few came much farther to represent their families. Tiffany Floyd, whose husband serves with the Wichita Police Department, said she drove to take part in the Topeka event because she had missed a similar photo shoot in Wichita.

“I wanted to get involved,” she said.

Block said she saw similar photo shoots online and wanted to arrange one to show support for local law enforcement. Several friends who are married to law enforcement officers also saw and liked the photos, so they helped spread the word to other wives, she said.

“All of these men are people we care for, and they’re not just a badge,” she said.

The wives wore matching shirts with the hashtag #WeSeeYou, a reference to an article by a police officer’s wife about seeing the struggles law enforcement officers encounter. Each shirt also was personalized with the husband’s badge number on the back, said Megan Green, who is president of the Fraternal Order of Police auxiliary and is married to Topeka police Sgt. Jayme Green.

Megan Green said she hoped people who saw the photos would realize police officers are ordinary people and would be motivated to support law enforcement.

“Our men and women in blue sacrifice for our community because they do love our community,” she said.

A few children and other family members of law enforcement officers wore T-shirts memorializing Topeka police Cpl. Jason Harwood, officer Jeff Atherly and Cpl. Dave Gogian. Harwood was shot during what started as a routine traffic stop in September 2014, and Atherly and Gogian were killed in December 2012 when they responded to a report of drug use in a grocery store parking lot.

It should also be noted that some of the same people leading this “Blue Lives Matter” group were later ALSO heavily involved in the Jan 6th riots and recruiting people and organizing busloads to go to Washington DC to participate in the insurrection riots to overthrow a fair election simply because trump was throwing a tantrum about it.

Some of the wives and children had black signs with a blue stripe and slogans like “My hero wears a badge,” “My dad’s life matters,” “Blessed are the peacemakers,” “I will not apologize for defending this line” and “Blue lives matter.”

Although “Blue lives matter” gained traction after the “Black lives matter” campaign in response to incidents where police used what protestors believed was excessive force against black men, the event Saturday had almost no sign of politics. The atmosphere was cheerful as the adults conversed and young children tossed around footballs or played games on their parents’ phones.

Rebeka Stanley, who is married to Rossville police officer Trent Stanley, participated with their sons, Braxton, 2, and Ryker, 3 months. Some members of the public see police officers as a “different type of person,” she said.

“They only see the bad and not the good side,” she said. “It’s not even just about occupation or where you come from, but everybody matters.”

You can count the non-white faces on less that one hand.

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