Stepping up to the plate while Rahm throws them under the bus for political correctness.
Via Chicago Tribune:
Alejandro “Alex” Valadez Jr. never got to meet his father, so more than 20 Chicago police officers filled in to help celebrate the boy’s kindergarten graduation Friday.
Officer Alejandro “Alex” Valadez, was killed in the line of duty in 2009 when he and his partner were investigating a report of shots fired in West Englewood. The convicted gunman was sentenced to 125 years in prison in 2011. Valadez died three months before his son was born.
At Annunciata Church in the East Side neighborhood on Friday, Valadez’s fellow officers made his son the man of the hour, cheering him on as he received his kindergarten diploma, shaking his hand after the ceremony and pinning badges onto his custom-made police uniform.
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson spoke to the children and assembled parents briefly during the ceremony, touching on the difficulties of being a police officer.
“Sometimes you have to make the ultimate sacrifice,” Johnson said. “Alex Sr. did that. … He was part of the CPD family then, he’s a part of the CPD family now, you’re a part of the CPD family forever.”
Johnson’s appearance came on the day that the city released information about 87 cases of forceful police encounters with residents.
The Annunciata School event was put together by the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation with the permission of Annunciata and the child’s family, organizer Kate McMahon said.