San Francisco Police Department, California
End of Watch Saturday, April 10, 2004
Reflections for Police Officer Isaac Anthony Espinoza
Another Holiday is upon us marking your anniversary, Another remembrance of how much we miss you my dear cousin and love you so much. I can still remember hugging you on Easter two years ago like it was yesterday. Our family loves these holiday get togethers and it's going to be hard for us all cuz last Easter is when we lost you. Please know that we are so proud of you and the life that you led. No one can compare nor ever replace you.
I talk about you all the time and fight for you and the issues that surround your death and your family every chance I get, one plus to working for the same city I guess.
I love you and Miss You and think of you all the time.
March 25, 2005
I will always remember and love you. I will remember how you looked out for me while I was growing up. I would do anything to bring you back to Renata and Bella and our families in general. I ask God that he may give us strength to carry on.
believing that we will see you again,
your brother:
Edgar
March 25, 2005
Isaac,
We think of you everyday. Im still in shock that your not here. Easter wont be the same without you. Ill miss you climbing up into Irenes tree and hiding easter eggs there for the kids. Like if they would have seen them there in the first place. You were such the jokester! I wish that I could have told you how much I respected you for all your accomplishments. I wish that I could have told you that I loved you for your hilarious ways. This year the husbands will climb in the tree to hide eggs for the kids. Your memory will always live on. I will miss you!
March 24, 2005
Isaac baby, Giants about to start again I remember the tribute they had for you last year, you would have been proud.
March 21, 2005
Officer Issac A. Espinoza was taken while I was in training at a Police Academy here in Northern California. A fellow recruit lived in San Francisco, and that recruits father worked with Espinoza at some point in his career.
In rememberance of Officer Isaac A. Espinoza we held a fund raiser at the Police Academy to raise money for Officer Espinoza's family.
This is something I will always remember, and something that the entire class of the 144th BLEC in Santa Rosa, CA will keep close to our hearts.
Rest in peace, Officer Isaac A. Espinoza.
Joseph Jordan
Police Academy Recruit
March 21, 2005
Renata...you are so unbelievably strong even though it probably doesn't feel like that to you. One day at a time is all anyone can do....
March 18, 2005
Hi Isaac we thought of you all day today. Watch over Renata and Bella. We miss you so very dearly. Sonia
March 17, 2005
Renata,I normally dont talk to you through this sight, but your Torn Apart reflection left me crying for a while.You did not leave one thing out, you expressed all of your hurt and anger and it is so un-imaginable because I can only & only imagine what you are feeling and going through. Remember what we talked about at lunch the other day. Take it one day at a time, that is as much as you can do. Time and God will be your healing friend. And you know what, you are much stronger than you really think you are and I sure admire you for that.One day you will smile from within deep inside you, but your wonderful memories will forever stay with you, that is something that you cannot let go, that is what keeps you alive. Im always here for you, you know that. Love you Sonia
March 17, 2005
Time after time I keep telling myself that this isn't real, that we are all going to wake up from this terrible nightmare, but as I look at you,Nina and Bella's picture reality sets in and as April 10th rolls around its another reality check that I have to give myself...that it's going to be a year without you and the reality of that is there are going to be many more years without you so the pain and loss will never end.... GOD PLEASE HELP US ALL
March 17, 2005
Ice ,I miss you and love you very much.Ask God to grant us strength day by day. Your brother
Edgar.
March 16, 2005
Torn apart between two worlds
the living and the dead.
Torn between the life that is now MY OWN a life I must live each day without you.
Torn between this life that I did not ask for but have to endure every single day. Laughing, loving, breathing, remembering, hoping, wishing, crying, dying inside.
Torn between this life of the living, or survivors (ha)whatever that means. Surviving what? Pain, hate, anger, sadness,unbelief, nightmare?
Torn between two worlds that ask more and more of me that I cannot give.
The world of the dead is how I feel inside walking around with no emotions, my heart grows colder to this world of the living, I have nothing inside, I am frozen. Confused, lost, Dead. Living in this world but walking dead inside.
Torn between the love of my soulmate and the love of the gift left behind.
Torn between what is right in your eyes and what is right for me now. Battling inside with what I knew was right and what now I can't see is right. Fogged up my mind is frozen. My soul is lost. I am emotionless.
Torn between living each day smiling,pretending, fighting, moving on or dying inside alone, scared, lost, confused, angry.
Torn between accepting that you are gone or waking up and realizing it's not a dream.....Torn apart
March 16, 2005
TO Nina, as surley as day follows night,and spring follows winter life does follow grief.The memories that brings tears to youre eyes,will one day bring healing.Stay strong.from Becky Moreira.
March 15, 2005
Watched Ladder 49 this weekend and couldn't help but tear up. I had a lump in my throat, thinking of how it takes a special person to have the courage to be a police officer/fire fighter. I thought of your wife and daughter and how proud they must be, yet how much they must miss you. Of all your fellow officers how they must wish you were back. This was a movie, I can only imagine what living it would be like.
Thank you for your courage. Rest in peace and watch over us and all the police officers who risk their lives so we civilians can live peacefully.
God bless your family!
March 14, 2005
Dear Isaac,
Today just wasnt a very good day for me. I couldnt help but stop and think of you after school. I try to hide my pain and try to hide the tears from my eyes. Its hurts for me live each day and pretend that everythings okay, when in reality its reall not. It kills me to see Renata and Bella and look at them & realize that thats THEM thats the FAMiLY. theres no you, theres no family theres no more being happy. Its just them. The two of them alone. I dont want people to be happy. I feel like its not fait that people should be happy if other people out their in the world arent happy with the ones that they love. Its not fait Isaac, its really not & sometimes it just doesnt seem ream. I want you back here with Renata and Bella and i want evreyone to be happy. It doesnt even seem real. I feel like sometimes im going to wake up and see you there outside, doing something, i dont know what but something! You were renatas dreams, you were her hopes, the air she breathes, the reason she went on each day, the reason she smiles, she cried, the reason she laughed, and the person you made her to be. I feel like the person she has become is because of you.I sometimes get so speechless and just numb and i still wonder WGT? god, why? I hate it. I hate it so much. I miss you & i wish you were here with me. Ill never forget you & please watch over me & guide me. Never leave Renata and Bellas side. They need you. Miss you.
Monica
March 9, 2005
The layers I have put around the pain of your going are thin.
I walk softly through life, adding thickness each day.
A thought or a feeling of you cracks the surface.
A call to you shatters it all.
And I spend that night in death, spinning the first layer of life with the sunrise.
It will never be the same
I will never be the same
You came
We loved
You left
I will survive until I survive.
and one day I will find myself alive again.
and yet another day, you will return and I will see
It is not the same.
March 9, 2005
Hi Isaac, well as you know Ana, Vero and I went to see you today. You must still be rolling after the conversation we had especially how much we talked about the Raiders, well you know how that was between us. We laughed and shared some tears, boy you are missed and we always talk about. This next couple of weeks is going to be very hard on your family, please help them through this. Renata and Bella are so wonderful, your innocent little angel looks just like you, you would be so proud of her. I look over to your house many times a day and I can see you so perfectly the way you were, sun bathing on you deck, or mowing whatever in your back-yard, or outside talking on the phone and watching Bella play. We think of you every day you are so dearly missed.
Sonia
March 9, 2005
His Journey's Just Begun
Don't think of him as gone away--
his journey's just begun,
life holds so many facets--
this earth is only one...
Just think of him as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.
Think how he must be wishing
that we could know today
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.
And think of him as living
in the hearts of those he touched...
for nothing loved is ever lost--
and he was loved so much.
Love Jozzie
March 8, 2005
Hey Bro.
It's been a while. I went by the to see you on Sunday when I was in the Area. I think about you everyday and I have your picture on my Computer Desktop. I came to see you the day we all said good bye but I'm sorry I could not face you one last time in person but I wanted my memory of you to be the same that it always has been....a smile and a joke. I know we weren't super close in high school be we did have our moments and joked around alot in class. What I remember most is that we ran into each other again a few months before you were taken from us. I remember working out at the gym and the day we caught up with each others lives while trying to work off some calories on the eliptical trainer. You are such a proud husband and father. I remember the days you would ride off from campus in the primered Impala. I think it was a 72 or 73. Man you used to love that car. And everyday you would have renata sitting right next to you rollin' In our last conversation you gave me some pointers on applying to the PD, well guess what bro' I have my oral board next week and I hope to be in by this summer. Although we didn't keep in touch throughout the years after High school, I have learned and heard so much about you and your career. I truly feel like I have caught up on your life a bit. Isaac, dawg your a good man. I speak to you in the present sense because the way I remember you and alway will is that you remain in our hearts and mind.
I miss you dawg and I promise that if I make it that I will remember honor and not bring disgrace to the SFPD and or your name.
Love you bro.
Renata, bless you and Isabella sweetheart.
Patrick
Westmoor High '93
March 8, 2005
I went to see you on thursday. It was quiet and peaceful. Surrounded by flowers from renata(they were still vibrant). I hadn't been by in a while but it was comforting to talk to you after so long. I like the pictures you have with you right now. I will see you again really soon.
February 26, 2005
Hey Iz,
You have been so deep in our hearts and minds, and speaking for myself, now more than ever. It's a powerless feeling because each of us wishes we could do something to make someone, anyone feel better about not having you in our lives anymore. But it's almost hopeless because nothing makes that empty-hollow feeling go away. Although, I have to say, that remembering all your funny jokes, pranks, and laugh will forever bring a smile to my face and for a minute make the pain go away. Miss you and love you.
February 23, 2005
Maybe it's these last cold rainy days, or the way a ray of sunshine lights up the house.
Maybe it's the way it smells in the morning as I start my day or how empty the streets look like when I'm driving.
Maybe it's how I expect to hear your voice when I get home or hold you tight as I go to sleep.
Maybe it's how each day that passes by I realize your not coming back or Maybe it's how our daughter grows into this perfect little person made up of me and you.
Whatever it could be has been hard for the past couple of days. I have missed you so much. I wish time would stand still for just a moment. I stayed up the other night and watched your video over and over again just to see you one more time and to hear your voice. It was torture, but I needed you, I missed you so much and that was the only way I knew how to have you for a minute. I don't know if it is the fact that my life is only gonna get worse with everything that is coming up or just the fact that everyday I think about you and miss you. Somedays are better than others but there's that hole in my heart that will not heal. Maybe it's the way I loose myself in our memories and wonder if happiness will ever come back.
Whatever it is I find myself missing you today more than ever......
February 23, 2005
It hurts that your gone. I think about you alot. I was in the city yesterday and couldn't help but to think of you. you are missed and I am sad.
Renata and Bella...I think of you often too...It makes me sad to know that you are without him.
Regina..your brother was the best!
February 22, 2005
Cousin
I still cant beleive your gone. I am still in shock but I am mad. I am mad that your not here to share with us family times. I am mad that you were taken so young. I am mad that your daughter will grow up without you. I am just mad that this has happened to you and all the wonderful people that loved you so much. Its not fair. It is hard to accept. I go on though,with my everyday mundane life. I have to. You cross my mind several times the day. I miss you.
February 22, 2005
ZAK-
Your pictures are in my locker, your memories spread around the station, and yet, I'm still in denial. I simply can't believe that you're gone, all of that positive energy...its not here anymore. I keep a portfolio dedicated to you, but its all so unreal. My last vision is watching the firefighters standing on top of the trucks saluting you as we drove under the overpasses on 280. In our patrol car, we were such a wreck, we started swerving, and the flags hanging from the fire trucks were a red, white, and blue blur. It was absolutely amazing! At the entrance of the cemetary, a small boy (about 8) held an American flag in one hand, and a salute in his other hand. How happy we were to see someone so innocent and unbiased, paying respects to an Officer he was (probably) raised to look up to and trust(the good 'ol days, huh). I couldn't think of a better person to look up to. Thank-you for being our Angel.
bayview officer
s.f.p.d.
February 21, 2005
Brother, My heart aches when I think of you . My heart hurts when I imagine what my sister and niece must feel. I ask God that he gives us strength that we may carry this cross. I know you are in his presence and I long for that day when we see you again. Our lives are not the same with out you. I love you bro:
Eggy
February 21, 2005
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