Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in peace, Officer Garza. You deserve your divine reward.

May God comfort your family, friends, and fellow officers at this difficult time.

God bless and protect the Thin Blue Line that protects us all.

Private Citizen Kathryn Felts
Mother of & Family Member of Law Enforcement

July 14, 2020

God Bless You, Your Family, & Friends.
Thank you for your unselfish service.

James P Waggle, Jr.
Civilian

July 14, 2020

To to heaven with head held high!

Billy Williamson Lt. (Ret.)
ColoradoCity Tx

July 13, 2020

A Hero was laid to rest today. He was not a famous someone-or-other. He was not a politician, diplomat, ambassador, or president of this country, or of any other country. He was not a race car driver, football or basketball player, coach, or play-by-play announcer. Nor was he a television or movie actor, radio personality, musician, thespian, or writer. He was not any of those people. So who was he?

He was a police officer. He was a person who patrolled our streets, stopping us when we were speeding or driving erratically.

He played games of "pick-up" with the neiborhood kids, made a child happy with a smile or a hug, consoled a family after they lost their house to a fire, took our reports after a crime was committed, and sometimes protected us from ourselves.

And always, he put his life on the line when a dangerous criminal was on the loose, fired his weapon only in self-defense and then felt bad because he had to fire his weapon, and first, last and always, protected the people he served with his life.

What is a Hero? It is someone who is afraid to do what he knows he must, yet finds the courage to go forward and onward. He respects the people whom he has promised to protect, and whom is respected in return.

A Hero is stedfast, honest, trustworthy and selfless. He always tells the truth, even when it hurts to do so.

A Hero was laid to rest today. He gave his life to protect and defend our lives, and he lost that life in the line of duty. Yet if you asked him, he would not consider himself a Hero, but merely another policeman who performed his duty to the best of his ability.

And for that, we call him a Hero. Rest in Peace, Hero. It is our turn to protect you now.

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant. I have put thee in charge over a few things, and thou hast prospered over much. Enter, thou, into the joy of thy Lord."

Mr. Paul L. Gray
Brevard Emergency Amateur Radio Services
Melbourne, FL

July 13, 2020

Thank you for your service, brother. RIP.

Lieutenant Brian J. Wills II
Oswego County Sheriff's Office
New York

July 13, 2020

Rest in Peace Brother.

Thank you for your service and ULTIMATE sacrifice.

Prayers for your family.

GOD BLESS

Firefighter Ronald Lavallee
Lawrence, MA Fire Department

July 13, 2020

PO EDELMIRO GARZA MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

MICHAEL D LONG
RETIRED NEW YORK STATE POLICE

July 13, 2020

Avenue of the Fallen

Standing at attention in their class “A“uniforms, badges gleaming and shoes like glass, are your brothers and sisters of Law Enforcement. All of whom have previously paid the ultimate price.
Today, like many others, they welcome you to this wonderful place.
As you march down the Avenue of the Fallen, all eyes focus on you as if to say “it’s OK, you’re with your eternal partners.”
A salute is followed and a tear can be seen on so many faces.
Welcome, you served well.
Now come join us in the ranks, another is coming home.
Officer Jim Weaver (#11452), Los Angeles Police Department retired
12-25-2010

Jim Weaver
Los Angeles Police Department retired

July 13, 2020

Our condolences to the family, friends and co-workers of Officer Edelmiro Garza. You are in our thoughts and prayers.

DeKalb, IL Police Department

July 13, 2020

Rest in Peace my Brother in Arms

Anrae G Godley-Cooper
U.S. Army Military Police

July 13, 2020

Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Rest In Peace Officer Garza. Our deepest heartfelt condolences to all of your family, friends, and brothers and sisters at McCallen Police Department.

Postal Inspector Scott Horne
US Postal Inspection Service

July 13, 2020

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and coworkers. Rest In Peace my Brother in Blue.

D.A. Investigator
Deaf Smith County District Attorneys Office

July 13, 2020

Our thoughts and prayers are with your family, friends and co-workers during this difficult time. Your service and ultimate sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Thomas H. Kelly Jr., ASAC
Federal Air Marshal Service

July 13, 2020

Thank you for your service. Prayers for your Family and your Department.

Sergeant Monica Veney
Baltimore Police Department

July 13, 2020

My deepest condolences on the tragic loss of Police Officer Edelmiro Garza . Thoughts and Prayers for His Family and also His Family at the McAllen Police Department.
“Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God”

Inspector Ken Mekeel
NYPD(ret) / LexisNexis

July 13, 2020

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your boyfriend has come home drunk and is beating you again.

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your 16 year old daughter, who is very responsible, is four hours late coming home from school.

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your store has been robbed or your house has been burglarized.

Today, I will not stop a drunk driver from killing someone. I will not catch a rapist or a murderer or a car thief.

Today, I will not answer the radio call that a man has a gun or tried to abduct a child or that someone has been stabbed or has been in a terrible accident.

Today, I will not save your child that you locked in a car or the child you were too busy to watch who went outside and fell into the swimming pool, but that I revived.

No, today I will not do that.

Why?

Today, I was suspended from duty for doing my job, because the media, liberals, a community organizer, a lawyer who formally represented terrorists and is the US attorney general and a mayor who ran on an anti-police agenda, who are all advised by a drug dealer, liar and income tax cheat. AND, all who know nothing about Policing, have vilified my profession.

Because ----

Today, I was killed by a drunk driver while I was helping push a disabled car off the highway.

Today, I was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop to simply tell someone that they had a taillight out.

Today, I was killed in a traffic accident rushing to help a citizen.

Today, I was shot and killed serving a warrant on a known drug dealer.

Today, I was killed by a man when I came by to do a welfare check because his family was too busy.

Today, I was killed trying to stop a bank robbery or a grocery store robbery.

Today I was killed doing my job.
A chaplain and an officer will go to a house and tell a mom and dad or a wife or husband or a child that their son or daughter or husband or wife or father or mother won't be coming home today.

The flags at many police stations were flown at half-mast today but most people won't know why.

There will be a funeral and my fellow officers will come, a twenty-one-gun salute will be given, and taps and bagpipes will be played as I am laid to rest.

My name will be put on a plaque, on a wall, in a building, in a city somewhere.

A folded flag will be placed on a mantel or a bookcase in a home somewhere and a family will mourn.

There will be no cries for justice.
There will be no riots in the streets.
There will be no officers marching, screaming 'no justice, no peace.'
No citizens will scream that something must be done.
No windows will be smashed, no cars burned, no stones thrown, no names called.
Only someone crying themselves to sleep tonight will be the only sign that I was cared about.

I was a police officer

My thoughts and prayers go out to your family and your brothers and sisters in blue as another great officer was taken from us to soon. You will never be forgotten!
Rest Easy Brother as we will take it from here.

Misty Lang
Great Great Niece of Fallen Officer William Hiram Givens McDonald County Sheriff's Department, McDonald County Missouri EOW 02-04-1984

July 13, 2020

All give some, some give all! Rest in Peace, sir!

Ptl. B L Waltz (Ret)
Avon Lake PD OH

July 13, 2020

On behalf of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office in Klamath Falls Oregon, we send our sincerest sympathy in the recent loss of your Officer, Edelmiro Garza, Jr., in the of duty. It is always a huge loss when a fellow officer makes the ultimate sacrifice. His bravery and courage to protect and serve your community has not gone unnoticed.

Sheriff Chris Kaber
Klamath County Sheriff's Office

July 13, 2020

On behalf of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office in Klamath Falls Oregon, we send our sincerest sympathy in the recent loss of your Officer, Ismael Chavez, in the line of duty. It is always a huge loss when a fellow officer makes the ultimate sacrifice. His bravery and courage to protect and serve your community has not gone unnoticed.

Sheriff Chris Kaber
Klamath County Sheriff's Office

July 13, 2020

Officer Garza Jr,

Thank you for your sacrifice for our nation. May you be with the Lord and may he be with your family.

Det. Russ Cain
Pittsburgh PD

July 13, 2020

To the family of Officer Garza and the men and women of the Mcallen P.D.
I'm so sorry for your loss and my heart aches with sadness and pain as I pray for you all this morning. I can not imagine what you all are going through, but please realize you are not alone and there are those Christians out here praying for you.
As Sheriff of a small Office, I can only imagine the devastation ripping through your immediate family and through your organization.
May we all learn what God is teaching us and may He give you the strength to endure!
Sheriff Jim

Jim Adkins, Sheriff
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Madras, Oregon

July 13, 2020

On behalf of Moms Back the Blue of the St. Louis County Police Family Association, we offer
our heartfelt condolences to the family (blood and blue) and friends of Officer Garza, Jr.
We will be forever indebted to you for your selfless service and sacrifice.
Always Honored; Never Forgotten

Proud Moms from
Moms Back the Blue of the
St. Louis County Police Family Association

July 13, 2020

Rest in Peace Officer Garza. Thank you for your Service.
My Prayers to your Family both Blood and Blue.

Cpl. Terri Albright, #668
DuPage County Sheriff's Office

July 13, 2020

With many heartfelt thoughts and deepest sympathy,

Rita Rocker
Deputy Executive Director
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles

July 13, 2020

Officer Garza, there is much evil in this world and you put your life in danger day after day of your dedicated selfless service that your community would live in safety. Your reward in heaven will be abundant. May He immerse you and your loved ones in His Divine Mercy. Rest in peace, good and faithful servant.

Jess Espinosa
Civilian

July 13, 2020