Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest now my friend, We'll take it from here...

Under Cover
Florida

March 15, 2005

Let it be known to all, "Those who defy Thy authority, defieth ME also" saith the Lord.

Sgt. Teasley, your service will never be forgotten! We in the law enforcement community salute you and pray for your family and comrades.

Scott Parker Police Officer # 586
Itasca Police Department, Texas

March 15, 2005

YOU WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU GAVE! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

OFFICER J.H. TUCKER
TUSCALOOSA P.D.

March 15, 2005

Thank You Sergeant Hoyt Teasley for your service and your sacrifice. God be with you and your family. You are my HERO!

Detective Lionel Garrett
Inglewood Ca PD

March 15, 2005

Our deepest sympathy and heartflet sorrow goes out to the family and friends of Sgt.Teasley.Rest easy brother,we will take it from here.

PO S.Harris#223
Cicero PD,Cicero IL. 3rd Watch

March 15, 2005

You are a true hero. Rest in peace. My thoughts are with your family.

Fire Capt
Utah

March 15, 2005

To the family,friends and co-workers of Sgt.Teasley,we are so sorry for your tragic loss,we have lost another brother officer and our hearts are heavy.Sgt.Teasley,you are a true HERO and you will be missed from all of us!We hope that justice will be served on the coward that took your life as well as the other people he murdered!You did your job and you did it well and we appreciate your service.

CPL.David Hazlett
Berry Hill P.D./Nashville,Tn.

March 15, 2005

True Hero's one and all, those that lay down their lives for their fellow man.
Thank you Seargent Teasley for you devotion to duty and to keeping your fellow citiezens safe from harm. May you patrol the streets of heaven.

W.B. BNurkholder

March 15, 2005

To the family of Sergeant Hoyt, I share your pain and grief. You are in my thoughts and prayers. My cousin was killed a month ago in the line of duty, and it hurts everytime I see another Officer killed protecting us. May God bring you peace in your time of hurt. RIP Sergeant Hoyt.

Brandy Mapp
Family member of Officer Chuck Haist

March 15, 2005

“When God made Peace Officers….”

When the lord was creating Peace Officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.”

And the Lord said, Have you read the spec on this order? A Peace Officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn’t touch, and not wrinkle their uniform.

They have to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.

They have to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half- eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands.

The angel shook her head slowly and said, “Six pairs of hands….No Way.”

“It’s not the hands that are causing me the problems,” said the Lord, “It’s the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have.”

That’s on the standard model? asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, “May I see what’s in there sir?” (When they already know and wishes they had taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of their head for their partners’ safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, “ You’ll be alright ma’am, when they know it isn’t so.”

“Lord,” said the angel, touching his sleeve,” rest and work tomorrow.”

“I can’t,” said the Lord, “I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on civil service paycheck.”

The angel circled the model of the Peace Officer very slowly, “Can it think?” she asked.

“You bet,” said the Lord, “It can tell you elements of a hundred crimes, recite Miranda warnings in it’s sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five judges to debate the legality of the stop…and still it keeps it’s sense of humor.

This officer also has phenomenal personal control. They can deal with crime scenes painted in HELL, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim’s family’ and then read in the daily paper how Law Enforcement isn’t sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Peace Officer. “There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model.”

“That’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.”

“What’s the tear for?” asked the angel.

“It’s for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, and for justice.”

“You’re a genius,” said the angel.

The Lord looked sober. “I didn’t put it there,” he said.


Anonymous

Senior Instructor
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

March 15, 2005

My heart and prayers go out to Sgt. Teasley Family and co-workers. Each day every officer in america put's on the uniform to go out and do a job to serve and to protected their communitys. I myself use to work for a Sheriff's department and know the dangers that Officer's have to go throught day in and day out. My the Lord our God comfort the family,friends and co-workers for know Sgt. Teasley is 10-7 10-42. Rest in peace my Brother in Christ Amen.

Captain Charles Maxwell
Spartan Security

March 15, 2005

HERO

March 15, 2005

Rest in peace Sergeant. Your courage and sacrifice will not be forgotten. May God bless your family.

Trooper
Ohio State Highway Patrol

March 15, 2005

My most deepest and sincere condolences
to your loved ones! We have lost a brother down here but our Lord in heaven has gained a Soldier, a Hero!

Sergeant Teasley, your ultimate sacrifice will not be forgotten!

PO Hector L Guzman 2170
US Dept. of Veterans Affairs Police
San Juan, Puerto Rico USA

PO Hector L Guzman
DVA Police San Juan

March 15, 2005

When i saw the news friday during school i couldn't belive it. it hurts that a man could do something like this. but, he will get the punishment he deserves. i just dont know the words to help you, but loving friends, and family will help you get through the rough times. i know this from exprence. i never met Sergeant Hoyt Teasley but he prolly was a great man, by just reading what people say. im sorry for you loss, a part of me died that day. because have a fallen brother who died in the line of duty, means you gain more. and i respect all law enforcment officers, if i know them or not..their all "brothers" in my eyes, and one day in heaven we will met. he died doing what he loved, to keep others safe form cowards like the guy. please accept mine and my family greatest condolances, hes in heaven watching over all of us. May he rest in peace. God Speed Blue Angel. until we met again........TO the family, co-workers and friends, always remember the memiories shared with Sgt. Hoyt, laugh and cry, one day you'll be with him agian...

Brian Betts
Surviving sibling of Officer C.R. Betts EOW 12-22-02

March 14, 2005

Rest in peace Brother Hoyt, you are a true hero and will never be forgotten.

Son of G. Truman Wortham EOW 7/13/75

March 14, 2005

I was so saddened to hear of the horror on Friday that took your life. May God provide for your family & friends what they will need to sustain them in the days & years to come. My heart feels the all too familiar break all over again for them.

Denise
Survivor of Trooper Calvin Taylor

March 14, 2005

Thanks for your dedication and sacifice. I will pray for you and your family. Rest in peace brother and God bless.

FAM
DHS/FAMS

March 14, 2005

Sgt. Teasley,

You gave your life protecting others while doing your job. Some times our jobs in Law Enforcement are thankless and many times go un-noticed. I can only think of one thing during this time of loss.

John 15:13 which states "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Go rest in peace Sgt. Teasley you have served your profession with Honor.

Robert Starnes - Training Coordinator
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Chattanooga, TN

March 14, 2005

WITH A GOLDEN STAR UPON HIS CHEST
HE PROVES EVERYDAY HE'S ONE OF THE BEST
ONE OF THE NEW BREED OF DEPUTIES
THAT HAS PASSED ALL THE TESTS
AND THAT GOLDEN STAR SHINES TONIGHT
IN THE SILVERY MOONLIGHT

SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTY TONIGHT
HE PATROLS IN HIS BROWN AND YELLOW
SERVING THE PUBLIC
THE BEST HE CAN
PROVING TO ALL
HE'S A SPECIAL TYPE OF MAN
WITH A DEPUTY'S STAR UPON HIS CHEST
HE'S PROVING TO ALL
HE'S ONE OF THE COUNTY'S BEST
AND HIS DEPUTY'S STAR SHINES TONIGHT
IN THE SILVERY MOONLIGHT
HIS DEPUTY'S STAR SHINES TONIGHT IN THE SILVERY MOONLIGHT

HE CHOSE DANGER FOR A PROFESSION
AND HE KNOWS ALL TOO WELL
THAT HIS DEATH MAY BE LURKING
IN THE SHADOWS OR AT ANY TURN
ONE WRONG MOVE MEANS HE'S GONNA GET BURNED
YEAH, ONE WRONG MOVE HE'S GONNA GET BURNED
WITH HIS DEPUTY'S STAR UPON HIS CHEST
HE'S PROVING TO ALL
HE'S ONE OF FULTON COUNTY'S BEST

HE WEARS HIS DEPUTY'S STAR
WITH HONOR AND PRIDE
'CAUSE HE'S PROTECTING THE PUBLIC
THE BEST THAT HE CAN
PROVING TO ALL
HE'S A VERY SPECIAL TYPE OF MAN
HIS STAR SHINES BRITE TONIGHT
AS WE REMEBER THE SGT. TEASLEY WHO TOOK HIS FINAL FLIGHT

When i heard the story i just couldn't believe how cold and heartless someone can truly be, and u were only answering the call of duty and u were taken from the us so cowardly and tragically. My deepest sympathies go out to Sgt.'s family, friends,and fellow co-workers u will be deeply missed we have lost one of Fulton County's Finest. And may the suspect recieve the maximum penalty allowed for his cowardly act. R.I.P Sergeant Hoyt Teasley as u have taken your final 10-42 Thanks for everything Sgt. Teasley

Anonymous

March 14, 2005

Be proud, your brothers and sisters acted the same way, as Heros. They got him Sgt.!! Not the way we all hoped for but he is off the street. REST IN PEACE, we have the wacth.

FTO K. Warner
Columbia County S.O.; Ga.

March 14, 2005

May your loved ones and friends be comforted in their time of grieve by the thoughts of the many good times that they spend with you while you were among them and the fact that you have made a difference. I shall keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. I salute you Sergeant.

Sergeant M. Wachs
Harris County Sheriff's Office

March 14, 2005

It never ceases to disgust me as to how these incidents occur, but it took real coward to perform such a horrible act. May the hero rest in peace, while the coward rot in a cell with others worse than he, and eventually die a more horrible death than ones committed with his hands on others. Your family and the families the court reporter, and the other deputies, as well as the victims affected by this horrible act is my prayers. May God bless Hoyt Teasley for his courage and dedication to his job and his agency.

P.O. T. Brown
Detroit Police Department

March 14, 2005

Thank you for protecting us all. You made the ultimate sacrifice, and you will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.

YPD

March 14, 2005

I think it's sad that this inmates name and face is all over the news. I think it's sad that the lady held hostage thinks that the killer is a good person and he was given a miracle. Why can't the media show more of an officer who died in the line of duty and could have given someone else a miracle by taking that bullet for some innocent person. I think the media needs to step back and realize whats real. I commend the officers that arrested him because I don't know if I could have been that professional. Rest in peace, hero.

Cpl
South Georgia S.O.

March 14, 2005