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President,
okay,
I'd
like
to
call
on
representative
scott
lewis
for
the
pledge
to
the
flag.
C
God,
please
bless
america
and
our
commonwealth
of
kentucky.
Please
bless
our
honored
veterans,
our
military,
our
police
officers,
our
firefighters
and
all
of
those
responders
who
have
committed
to
serve
and
protect
us
every
day.
May
they
never
grow
weary
of
doing
good
god.
Please
send
recovery
and
strength
to
the
broken
hearts
in
eastern
kentucky
to
the
families
of
our
fallen
officers
and
for
to
those
injured
in
allen
kentucky
on
june
30th.
C
Please
pray
today
I
pray
for
senator
embry
and
chair
thomas
and
I'm
very
thankful
for
this
opportunity
and
platform
to
recognize
our
fallen
officers
today.
May
everyone
please
find
comfort
in
a
relationship
with
you,
amen.
A
C
I
want
to
begin
by
thanking
our
committee
chairs
once
again
for
allowing
us
the
opportunity
today
to
honor
those
who
have
served
and
sacrificed
by
now.
Many
of
you
probably
know
that
on
june
30th
officers
in
floyd
county
attempted
to
serve
paperwork
upon
a
resident
of
allen
kentucky
when
officers
arrive,
the
subject
barricaded
himself
inside
of
the
home
and
opened
fire
as
officers
at
the
scene
called
for
help
with
shots
fired.
Our
neighboring
law
enforcement
communities
answered
the
call.
C
We
are
also
joined
today
by
floyd
county
judge,
executive,
robbie
williams
and
constable
gary
wolfe,
who
will
both
be
accepting
tributes
today
in
honor
of
those
injured
outside
of
these
two
departments,
and
actually
mr
wolf
was
our
constable
that
was
injured
in
in
the
during
the
tragedy.
He
suffered
an
injury
to
his
eyes.
C
Senator
turner
regrets
that
he's
unable
to
join
us
today,
but
since
his
condolences,
he
is
the
senator
for
our
district
today,
we're
here
to
share
the
loss
suffered
by
floyd
county
and
to
pay
tribute
to
our
beloved
fallen
officers
and
those
still
recovering
from
life-changing
injuries
and
also
reinforce
the
value
of
our
first
responders
and
all
those
serving
in
public
protection.
C
C
E
I'm
sorry
my
name
is
kevin.
Thacker,
I'm
employed
by
the
floyd
county
sheriff's
office.
I've
been
there
about
eight
years,
william
petry,
I've
known
him
for
over
20
years.
I
worked
at
ems
prior
to
law
enforcement
picture.
He
had
spent
15
years
with
the
kentucky
state
police.
He
was
a
detective
there.
He
was
also
the
public
affairs
officer
at
post
9
in
pikeville.
E
E
Everybody
knows
petrie's
resume
and
they
know
what
a
good
police
officer
he
was,
and
he
was
I
mean
he
was
an
idol
to
our
office.
He
knew
way
more
than
any
of
the
rest
of
us,
but
he
never
let.
You
know
that,
but
the
the
most
important
thing
about
picture.
He
was
a
family
man.
He
he
leaves
behind
his
wife,
sherry.
E
E
Actually
he
actually
graduated
college
before
he
graduated
high
school,
so
he's
going
on
to
alice
lloyd
college,
where
he
will
be
on
the
golf
team,
which
is
something
that
him
and
petrie
shared
together
picture
was
also
very
proud
of
his
daughter
courtney
and
the
grandchildren,
the
children
that
she
had.
They
referred
to
him
as
pap,
so
he
was
a
police
officer
and
everybody
saw
him
in
the
in
the
community
as
that.
E
But
more
importantly,
he
was
a
family
man
and
he
bragged
on
his
family
all
the
time
he
bragged
on
courtney
and
chase
and
and
talked
about
his
wife
a
lot
she
was
in
the
in
the
court
system.
So
we
all
knew
her
also
and
she
just
recently
retired-
and
you
know
what
a
lot
of
people
don't
realize
about
petrie.
Is
he
missed
he
retired
as
a
kentucky
state
trooper
and
he
missed
being
a
police
officer
when
he
came
into
our
office?
E
He
just
fit
in
he's
only
been
there
a
couple
of
years,
but
it
seemed
like
he'd
been
there
the
whole
time
so
so
petrie's
petri,
just
like
the
rest
of
them,
is
a
great
loss,
especially
to
our
our
agency.
It's
small
and
we
all
looked
up
to
petrie
drago
drago
drago
was
a
superstar
and
when
it
comes
to
a
dog-
and
you
could
ask
anybody
that
when
he
showed
up
on
scene,
you
knew
he
was
either
going
to
apprehend
whoever
had
ran
from
you.
If
there
was
any
illegal
narcotics,
he
was
going
to
find
him.
E
He
had
been
a
part
of
the
agency
for
about
five
years.
He
had
two
different
handlers:
the
first
handler
justin
chimchak.
He
moved
on
to
a
better
opportunity
at
ashland
police
department,
deputy
dusty
newsome,
took,
took
over
and
was
trained
with
drago
after
that
and
and
drago
when
he
would
put
that
vest
on,
he
would
come
to
work.
He
knew
he
was
at
work,
but
when
he
was
at
home
those
handlers,
children
would
paint
paint
this
dog's
toenails.
E
You
know
so
he
was
part
of
their
family
also
and
also
as
far
as
our
agency
was
concerned,
32
year
old,
deputy
darren
lawson,
he
was
injured
in
the
incident.
He,
as
we
speak,
he's
undergoing
his
eighth
surgery
at
a
hospital
here
in
kentucky
he
has
a
long
road
ahead
of
him
he's
the
same
way.
His
three-year-old
daughter
hayden
runs
his
pride
and
joy.
So
he's
he's.
E
He
has
a
really
good
attitude
about
things
and,
and
they
are
really
optimistic
that
he
will
be
able
to
keep
his
his
limb
if
everything
goes
well,
so
I
think
that's
the
thing
that
a
lot
of
people
don't
look
at
is.
Is
the
public
saw
us
all
as
police
officers
and
they
know
us,
but
you
know
we're
all
regular
people
too,
and
we
all
have
families
and
and
and
it's
a
great
great
loss
for
our
community.
E
For
this
to
happen
to
us-
and
I
just
want
to
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
be
able
to
come
and
and
talk
about,
deputy
petry,
deputy
lawson
and
canine
drago.
C
Thank
you
kevin
now,
I'll
turn
it
over
to
deputy
ross
shirtless.
F
My
name
is
ross
shirtless,
I'm
the
deputy
chief
of
police
for
the
city
of
prestonsburg
police
department,
kind
of
put
things
in
hindsight
when
I
came
to
prestonsburg
pd
eight
years
ago,
with
my
mayor's
administration,
ralph
frazier
was
one
of
my
first
supervisors
groomed
me
as
a
supervisor.
Until,
as
he
said,
I
out-promoted
him,
and
I
would
still
with
his
39
years
of
service
lean
on
him.
F
A
lot
of
people
see
the
two
different
uniforms,
but
how
intertwined
this
was
and
how
huge
of
a
just,
quite
frankly,
punch
in
the
gut
this
was
to
us
as
a
family
deputy
petry
spent
15
years
with
the
prestonsburg
police
department
and
left
as
a
shift
commander
as
a
lieutenant.
Before
he
went
on
to
the
state
police,
we
had
a
very
successful
career.
F
F
Kate
andrego,
as
anybody
who
knows
anything
about
police
work,
will
tell
you
that
when
it
comes
to
municipal
police
agencies,
when
it
comes
to
legal
liability
and
risk
management,
we're
a
little
on
the
apprehensive
side
and
we
had
never
had
a
bite
dog
before
and
drago
is
the
reason
that
we
got
nelson.
The
our
bite
dog
who
was
officer
chaffins
dog.
F
F
F
He
absolutely
loved
his
job
and
he
had
a
passion
for
it
about
three
years
ago.
He
almost
hung
it
up
and
said:
I'm
done.
Finally,
I'm
done
with
nearly
40
years
on
and
then
the
school
resource
officer
position
opened
and
he
said
I'll,
give
it
a
try
and
he
went
to
the
high
school
and
he
wasn't
just
a
school
resource
officer.
F
F
He
was
leaned
on
by
the
kids
at
prestonsburg,
high
school
and
every
morning
before
he
walked
out
the
door
with
his
cup
of
coffee
and
his
paw
ma
menthol
100
in
his
hand,
he'd,
say
mommy
I'll
go
check
on
my
kids
and
you
absolutely
did
not
cross
his
path
when
it
came
to
those
kids
at
prestonsburg
high
school
and
he
found
a
new
life
in
his
career
39
years
into
it
and
had
no
plans
of
giving
that
up
so
much
so
that
he
got
promoted
to
a
commander's
position.
F
F
We've
got
officer,
jake
chafins,
who
everybody
passionately
referred
to
as
jake
everything
has
showed
jacob,
but
those
who
knew
him
called
him
jake.
A
lot
of
people
have
asked
him
being
a
canine
handler
with
just
three
years
on,
but
anybody
who
knows
jake
knows
that
he
doesn't
just
show
up.
He
shows
out,
he
was
good
and
he
knew
it.
F
He
everything
he
set
his
mind
to.
He
wanted
to
be
a
police
officer
and
he
would
not
quit
until
he
got
hired
and
then
he
wanted
to
be
a
canine
handler
and
he
would
not
quit
until
he
got
until
he
got
a
dog
and
he
had
nelson
just
nine
months
and
him
and
nelson
were
a
powerhouse
of
a
team.
Together
they
were
just
getting
started
and
nelson
would
listen
to
anything
that
jake
told
him
to
do
until
it
came
to
his
six-year-old
daughter.
F
Paisley
nelson
was
the
most
obedient
dog
that
you
have
met
is
the
most
obedient
dog
that
you
have
met
until
it
comes
to
paisley.
Jake
told
me
once
that
he
raised
his
hand
to
discipline
his
young
daughter
once
and
nelson
said.
No,
I
don't
think
so
and
showed
him
who
the
boss
in
the
house
was
when
it
came
to
that
little
girl.
F
So,
there's
a
lot
of
recovery
still
yet
and
there's
a
lot
of
memorial
still
yet
and
through
these
avenues
that
representative
tackett
lafferty,
gives
us
and,
and
that
the
this
committee
gives
us
to
remember
these
guys,
because
it's
not
just
healing
it's
healing
and
solidifying
what
exactly
they
did
that
day
to
come
in
and
for
somebody,
the
event
that
led
to
this
they
had
never
met
before,
and
they
would
never
see
again
after
that
investigation
was
concluded
in
most
cases
laid
down,
their
lives
got
shot
and
killed
and
died
for,
and
that
is
a
huge
sacrifice.
G
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
I
just
want
to
thank
deputy
thacker
deputy
chief
shirtless
also
with
us
is
county
judge,
executive,
robbie
williams
from
floyd
county
and
constable
gary
wolfe
gary
was
also
one
of
the
first
in
law
enforcement.
I
met
in
floyd
county
when
I
came
out
as
a
trooper,
where
I
started
gary
was
injured
up
there
that
day
he
was
there.
He
was
a
deputy
back
when
I
first
came
to
floyd
county
and
got
to
know
ralph
very
well.
We've
eaten
many
meals
together
over
the
years.
G
G
I
don't
recall
in
my
career,
and
I
think
we
have
to
probably
go
back
a
hundred
years-
that
we've
had
this
many
officers
shot
in
any
single
incident
in
the
commonwealth
of
kentucky,
but
this
one
involved
a
sheriff's
department,
a
police
department,
the
kentucky
state
police,
a
constable
and
even
an
ems
personnel
that
was
shot
when
they're
saying
injured.
Folks.
Let's
understand
they
were
shot
viciously
ambushed
and
shot
by
someone.
G
G
But
you
know
what
the
fellow
police
officers
went
in,
they
drove
into
those
scenes
and
they
helped
to
bring
this
to
an
end.
It
could
have
ended
much
worse,
but
it's
still
a
tragedy,
the
way
it
ended.
So
today
we
owe
these
men
that
gave
the
ultimate
sacrifice
their
life.
We
owe
them.
We
owe
their
families
it's
one
of
the
reasons
I
was
pushing
so
hard
a
few
years
ago
over
the
benefits.
The
debt
line
of
duty
death
benefits
for
our
police
in
this
commonwealth.
G
G
G
I
thank
you
for
your
service.
I
thank
you
for
what
you
do
gary.
I
thank
you
that
you've
been
in
it
as
many
years
as
you
have,
and
as
long
as
you
you
enjoy
it
stay
in
it
because
it's
an
honor
profession,
I
don't
care
what
anybody
says.
I
don't
care
what
the
national
groups
want
to
publish
and
put
out
there,
your
good
men
and
women
that
do
a
tough
job
that
has
to
make
split-second
life
and
death
decisions,
and
I
stand
with
you.
Thank
you.
G
E
C
Mr
chair,
I
have
brought
today
citations
in
memoriam
from
the
house
of
representatives
that
we
have
framed
to
give
to
the
officers,
families
and
the
deputies,
and
the
officers
have
agreed
to
kind
of
take
those
to
the
families.
For
us.
I
would
just
like
to
say
that
I'd
like
to
distribute
these
at
the
end
to
everyone,
but
I'd
like
to
first
ask
and
see
if
gary
or
robbie
would
you
all
like
to
say
anything
before
we.
A
C
Thank
you.
I
I
just
they
are
here
to
accept,
accept
these
tributes,
but
I
want
to
say
that,
obviously,
these
this
presentation
is
not
to
belittle
at
all
the
mental
stress
that
these
officers
are
going
to
be
facing
the
entire
police
department
and
not
just
the
floyd
county
police
department
and
not
just
the
prestonsburg
city
police
department.
C
We
had
atf
ashland,
you
know
they
made
the
call
and
and-
and
so
many
showed
up
and
I'd
like
for
you
first
I'd
like
to
also
thank
you,
because
the
bill
that
we
actually
presented
in
this
committee
last
session,
which
I'm
pretty
sure
was
co-sponsored
by
almost
everyone
in
here,
which
provides
up
to
48
hours,
optional,
leave
for
first
responders,
who
are
involved
in
tragic
accidents
or
tragedies
such
as
this.
C
I
did
want
to
mention
just
a
few
more
names
because
they
were
not
able
to
make
it
today,
but
he
did
mention
that
our
emergency
management
911
director
joe
reynolds,
also
suffered
an
eye
injury,
a
severe
eye
injury.
I
think
deputy
thacker
advised
me
that
he's
he's
lost,
he's
lost
his
eye.
He's
lost
vision
in
his
eye.
C
We've
also
had.
We
also
had
a
trooper
bill
ball,
who
was
shot
at
the
time
in
the
back.
Unfortunately,
his
vest
absorbed
the
bullet,
so
I
believe
he
may
have
been
taken
to
the
hospital
but
was
treated
and
released.
Fortunately,
but
this
was
a
really
dangerous
time
and,
like
I've
said
to
a
lot
of
people,
as
representative
blanton
said,
you
know,
we
do
come
from
a
small
town,
but
we
do
have
a
big
sense
of
community
and
we
appreciate
you
letting
us
show
that
today.
C
So
at
this
time,
if
you
don't
care,
I'd
like
to
present
some
of
the
some
of
the
citations
and
the
challenge
coins,
I'm
going
to
give
citations
and
memorial
from
the
house
of
representatives
to
the
fallen
officers,
families,
including
the
cain
drago,
and
I'm
also
giving
the
committee's
challenge
coins
to
the
officers
who
were
injured.
So
if
I
could
just
ask
ross,
if
you
could
accept
ralph,
captain
ralph,
frazier
and
officer
jacob
chaffins,.
C
A
With
those
with
the
next
generation
911
part
of
the
program,
please
come
forward
sit
the
table
identify
yourselves
for
your
record.
D
All
right
just
for
everybody's
situational
awareness
for
the
kentucky
office,
homeland
security
in
cases
you're
first
go
around
with
us.
We
basically
operate
off
a
three-legged
school.
We
oversee
all
of
the
federal
grants
that
originate
from
dhs
and
fema
that
are
available
for
our
local
units
of
government
to
combat
terrorism.