Buffalo Police Officer Craig Lehner's funeral - Honoring a Police Officer
Officer Craig Lehner
The flag-draped casket containing Buffalo police Officer Craig E. Lehner's body began its final journey at about 9:25 a.m. Wednesday, heading from a funeral home in Hamburg to his funeral service in the KeyBank Center in downtown Buffalo, where thousands of police officers from across North America waited in a light rain to salute him.
The casket and relatives of the officer, who died in a police dive team training exercise, were being escorted to the arena by police and the Patriot Guard riders from New York, Pennsylvania and Syracuse on 11 motorcycles and in about 10 police cruisers.
Thousands of law enforcement officers were lining up 10 rows deep on both sides of Perry Street from Washington Street to Michigan Avenue, preparing to salute Lehner's casket when it arrives at the KeyBank Center.
Police estimated 5,000 to 10,000 officers from across the U.S. and Canada will attend the 10 a.m. funeral service, expected to be one of the biggest in Western New York history.
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In other states and cities police officers are shot at. Here in Buffalo we honor the fallen officer.
Ok.......that makes absolutely no sense
RIP to this good man
Meaning in Buffalo we don't shot at Police Officers, we honor them.
So no police officer in Buffalo has EVER been shot at in history?! I seem to remember reading about one being shot at earlier this year
Can't bring myself to do what? Send out condolences? You see before he was a cop he was a man, and judging by the amount of people that came out to his funeral must have been beloved and cherished because he was a good person not just a good cop. You all want everyone to see police as human, then we should celebrate and mourn with them as human not just because they carried a badge
Look in the mirror and ask yourself that
So young!
RIP Craig.