Funerals were also held for Sergeant Michael Smith, 55, and Officer Lorne Ahrens, 48, of the Dallas Police Department. Funerals for the other two slain officers, Michael Krol, 40, and Patrick Zamarripa, 32, are expected later in the week. The first funeral services were held on Wednesday for three of the five policemen that were shot during a protest in Dallas. Dallas police officer Eddie Coffey described Ahrens as a calming presence and a down-to-earth man. The officers slain in Dallas last week were patrolling a demonstration decrying the killings by police of Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, outside St. Paul, Minnesota.

Source: dna July 14, 2016 03:56 UTC