{"id":887891,"date":"2021-10-16T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=887891"},"modified":"2021-10-16T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T22:44:40","slug":"biden-pays-tribute-to-americas-fallen-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pays-tribute-to-americas-fallen-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden pays tribute to America\u2019s fallen officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-pays-tribute-to-americas-fallen-officers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=887891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2551553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2551553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 16: Joe Biden speaks during the 40th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on October 16, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:55 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, October 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden honors police officers outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Biden paid tribute to our nation\u2019s fallen officers on Saturday at the 40th annual National Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Service. He said being a police officer today is \u201ca lot harder than it has ever been,\u201d adding we can unite the nation and fight our common foes.<\/p>\n<p>The service honored the nearly 500 officers who have died in the line of duty during 2019 and 2020 as Biden highlighted how last year was the deadliest year for law enforcement on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect everything of you. And it\u2019s beyond the capacity of anyone to meet the total expectations. Being a cop today is one hell of a lot harder that it\u2019s ever been,\u201d Biden stated. \u201cAnd the families of the fallen, you\u2019ve suffered an enormous loss, but I understand your loss is also America\u2019s loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To everyone at today\u2019s National Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Service: Your loss is our nation\u2019s loss. Your pain is our nation\u2019s pain. May the souls of those you love \u2014 and those with whom you have served \u2014 rest in peace and rise in glory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ww5alp3vft\">pic.twitter.com\/Ww5alp3vft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1449474413506842624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of Saturday\u2019s event, Biden ordered flags be flown at half-staff and said several officers have lost their lives to COVID-19 in the dark, early days of the pandemic. The Democrat\u2019s speech comes as Americans are divided when it comes to supporting its police forces.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made sure to call attention to his stalled police reform bill at the memorial service and suggested more funding so departments are \u201cgiven the tools needed to be the partners and protectors their communities need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re waking up to the notion that unless we change the environment in which the job can be done, we\u2019re going to have trouble having enough women and men come forward to want to do the job,\u201d Biden stated.<\/p>\n<p>He assessed it\u2019s now time to prevent the preventable tragedies, adding we can unite the nation and fight our common foes.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rep-hoyer-house-may-vote-to-remove-debt-limit-threat-this-month\/\">Rep. Hoyer: House May Vote To Remove Debt Limit Threat This Month<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 16: Joe Biden speaks during the 40th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on October 16, 2020 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}