Patrolman Joseph Andrew Edwards

I was born in 1978, six years after the murder of Patrolmen Joseph Andrew Edwards. Up until several months ago, I had priorly never given Officer Edwards any thought whatsoever. I had no reason to ,as I never met him, knew nothing about him, and had no personal, emotion vestment in his nonetheless senseless murder. I had only been told twice, far in years apart, that Patrolmen Edwards, was the brother of a family member of mine, and as well that Patrolmen Edwards lost his life in the line of duty back in the 1970s. I didn't even remember I had even been told this until it came time for me to remember, which happened in the aforementioned months back The universe itself made me remember one simple short conversation, when the truth which is a great and ever present force, brought back to mind what I had been told, as in Officer Edwards being althe brother of a relative of mine.
This happened after I came to realize the true inward nature of character that certain unarmed individual indeed do indeed have. And this took the entire 45 years of my life to realize about them. Yet once I did, when the blinders came off and I saw them as they are, then that force of truth, blowing as the wind that carries record of the things which were, before I was born, as it shall after I no longer remain, did bring back a seed of memory. And only knowing that an officer who's name I did not know was killed in the line of duty before I was born, led me to finding out that that officer, Officer Edwards, had the same first, middle, and last name as his alleged brother, and as well had the same exact face of that man, whom I knew as Joseph Andrew Edwards, my Grandpa Andy, who died 20 years later in 1992. I can not carry the secrets of my family and whatever happened. As it is not my responsibility, and I will not have this on my conscious. So now let it be openly said, whether it be read, seen, unseen regardless. For the wind still blows, thus the wind still knows, so let it testify against those who know the truth of this mans death. For I have tried and I have aided and those who keep these records online know this. May you, and as well all those who be fallen find rest, and as well be honored in that life to come, that is, and was, and shall be again. Godspeed Patrolmen Edwards.

Christian Edwards
An Advocate for Patrolmen Edwards

October 25, 2024