Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

RIP Barney
I love you for the hero you are

Shelly Porter

March 30, 2015

RIP Barney. Thank you for your service and dedication.

Michelle - wife of US Marshal

March 30, 2015

Thank you Barney for your service to the Law Enforcement agency where you served. I know they will miss you. Everyday I go home, I look for my faithful friend to run up to the fence and greet me and when he doesn't, I know he's on the back patio sleeping. I usually sneak up to the fence and yell, "what? you sleeping on the job again and he jumps up and comes running to lick my face and I laugh so hard till I cry because it's like he saying, "hey I wasn't sleeping just resting my eyes". He is my morning joy and and midnight protector, so I know what you meant to your handler and family. May God keep you in perfect peace. I am MyBrothesrKeepr.

Marshal B. Tindle
City Of Killeen Marshals Office/Former Shreveport PD

March 30, 2015

May God carry you into Paradise. God said it to be so I know its true. My respect K-9 Barney. I know you are in great company.

K-9 Trooper D Osborne
Tennessee Highway Patrol

March 29, 2015

K9 Barney. Thank you for your service. My condolenses to Barney's handler. I am sure he served with honor and a diligence unsurpassed. Truely a terrible loss for all at Tacoma police department. Run free at the bridge Barney. Look for K9 Atak there. He will befreind you and show you the way to peace and love. IMO K9 Atak Arnado.

Citizen
Former K9 handler

March 28, 2015

Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thank you for you long service and sacrifice. Our love and prayers for your fellow officers and human hander.

Joel & Lisa
Civilian Supporters

March 28, 2015

Iam so sorry to hear of the loss of another K9. Hugs and prayers from my family in Edmonton Alberta.

Debbie
private citizen

March 28, 2015

Thankyou Barney for your sacrificing your life to keep us safe. I lost a son to meth almost eight years ago. You are in heaven now. Find Brad. He will throw a ball for you.

Paula Minkler
survivor

March 27, 2015

RIP Barney. Thank you for making the community safer!

Private Citizen

March 27, 2015

RIP Barney

Marshal Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

March 27, 2015

Thank you "Officer" Barney for your service. May you rest in peace. May God bless and comfort the family Barney leaves behind.

Deputy
TN

March 27, 2015

RIP K9 Barney. Thank you for serving your community and our country. Methamphetamine is a plague that hurts our society and kills thousands of people a year. You were a vital part of combating that threat. My thoughts and prayers are with your partner, co-workers, friends and family.

Border Patrol Agent
Officer of Border Protection

March 27, 2015

Rest in peace Barney!
You will not be forgotten!

Willie Bell Hopewell VA!
Friend Of All Law Enforcement Officers!

March 27, 2015

Thank you K-9 Barney for your dedication & service and for helping in your work to get dangerous drugs off of the street. Our thoughts & prayers go out to Officer Betts as well as K-9 Barney's team at the Tacoma Police Department & the community during this time of loss. K-9 Barney, you will always be remembered. Run free now.

Cover Your K-9 Team
The Police & Working K-9 Foundation

March 27, 2015

IN MEMORY OF K9 BARNEY

To the family, friends, and colleagues of K9 Barney:

From the beginning of time after Cain killed his brother, Abel, there has been a need for law enforcement officers to protect the weak and to bring evildoers to justice. This work is necessary in a sinful world and is dangerous. Thus far in 2015, five law enforcement canines have sacrificed their lives to protect their handlers and the citizens of this great nation. Today, we honor the sacrifice of K9 Barney, of the Tacoma, Washington, Police Department, who was fatally poisoned in the line-of-duty on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, when he “hit” on a storage unit in Puyallup, Washington, on a search warrant, and found forty-four (44) pounds of Methamphetamine; some of which was unwrapped for which K9 Barney inadvertently ingested. As a result, K9 Barney died the next day on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, as a result of illicit drug poisoning.

Lord God, we are grateful for the life of K9 Barney. He died serving us. Help us never to forget. Help us celebrate the life of K9 Barney and honor his sacrifice. Be with the family, friends, and colleagues of this fallen hero. Comfort them and give them your strength. Guide those who seek to take care of the family of this hero. May those empowered to do so, care for them with integrity. In commemorating the death of this hero, help those who mourn to remember that death is not the end. Death does not have the final say, but is simply the transition to the glorious life to come. Dogs do go to heaven! They should look forward to that life to come with joy and thanksgiving.

As for the citizens of Tacoma, Washington, help them to faithfully equip their law enforcement officers and canines with the best tools to protect their community. May their training be adequate to the task. Help the citizens of Tacoma, Washington, to remember to fund their law enforcement canine programs adequately and treat their canine heroes with respect. Help the citizens of Tacoma, Washington, to obey the law and treat each other with dignity so as not to add to the burden of crime and pain to their community.

The time for mourning will soon pass. We have now remembered and celebrated the life lost in this great tragedy. As the family, friends, and colleagues of K9 Barney go forward, they must celebrate the good things in their lives; and to celebrate life itself!

Finally, Lord God, we pray for the families, friends, and colleagues of all the law enforcement officers and canines who have been killed in the line-of-duty and we thank you for their sacrifices. Bless the lives of their families, friends, and colleagues so they might find healing. Help their law enforcement organizations support the families of these fallen heroes. Even though their deaths might have been senseless, make something good come out of these situations so that their law enforcement organizations and the communities in which they lived and served might be stronger because of their lives and their deaths. Amen.

Now, K9 Barney, may the Lord bless you, and keep you: the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. Amen.
Now, go and crossover the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ for there is much work to do against Satan and his demons!

In His Service,

Police Chaplain Steven R. Closs
Retired Captain of Police, Nashua NH Police Department
Police Chaplain of the Merrimack, NH Police Department
Pastor of The Peacemakers Prayer Ministry

Police Chaplain Steven R. Closs
Merrimack NH Police Department

March 27, 2015

People say I'm "Just a Dog" then why would it be,
if you spell my name backwards god is what you see
I have many jobs, one is protecting your life
or making sure your family's safe
when that prowler is out at night.
My Partner calls me Family
My Prayers to K-9 Barney, and his Partner also To the Department. K-9 Barney, May you guard the doors of haven and watch over your Partner from above. Thank you for your service. For it is not just those with 2 legs who are born with a soul that has courage to wear a badge

Kevin L. Mellinger
So. Nye Co. Sheriff's Search & Rescue

March 27, 2015

RIP K9 Barney, and a "good boy" to you for helping to get all of that meth off the streets. Thank you for your service, and my condolences to your handler and to the department.

Mark L. - Paramedic
Middleton EMS (WI)

March 27, 2015

Gone But Not Forgotten.... Rest easy Barney and enjoy those tennis balls wherever you may be.

Sgt JD Barrett
Tacoma PD

March 27, 2015

RIP Hero and thank you. My thoughts and prayers to his handler and all who knew him.

private citizen

March 27, 2015