Marine veteran and San Diego cop Jeremy Henwood

Just back from Afghanistan, Marine Corp Reserve Captain Jeremy Henwood was killed by a nut while in his police car. In this LA Times link from ROS, 3000 fellow officers attended his funeral this week;

Henwood, a captain in the Marine reserves, had just rejoined the Police Department after a deployment to Afghanistan. He had also made two combat deployments to Iraq.

Police Capt. Lawrence McKinney, commander of the Mid-City Division where Henwood served, said that he “went boldly into harm’s way, knowing full well that he might not come back someday.”

McKinney, his voice breaking with emotion, urged the crowd to remember Henwood’s courage rather than “the cowardly act of one lost soul,” a reference to Dejon Marquee White, 23, Henwood’s assailant.

Tman sends this video of Henwood’s final act before he was murdered in which he touched the life of one small boy;

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