Texas Department of Public Safety - Criminal Investigations Division, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, January 22, 2022
Reflections for Special Agent Anthony Salas
Hello, My name is Gabriela and I am doing a project for my Criminal Justice class in GAVC, Morris, IL. I chose Agent Anthony Salas for my officer and I´d love for everyone to hear his story. May he rest in peace, we won't forget.
Gabriela
none
January 26, 2023
Special Agent Salas,
On today, the 1st anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice-not just as a Law Enforcement Officer but for our Country as well when you served with the USMC. And to your Family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.
Semper Fi Devil Dog!
A fellow LEO;former Marine
Anonymous
United States Border Patrol
January 22, 2023
Rest In Peace Hero.!!
Thank you for your service.
Sending my deepest and most heartfelt condolences for your tragic loss. My sincere sympathy to your friends and family.
Enid Rodríguez
May 8, 2022
Special Agent Salas,
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
March 20, 2022
God Bless You, Your Family, & Friends.
Thank you for your unselfish service to protect your community.
James P. Waggle, Jr.
US Army Veteran (SFC)
Civilian
February 6, 2022
Rest in eternal Peace, good and faithful public servant.
God has already reserved a special place for our peacemakers.
Please continue your careful and diligent watch over us.
When Law Enforcement perishes, a proud and caring nation mourns.
Thank you for your heroic sacrifice!
Thank you for your selfless service!
Thank you for your guardian protection!
Our prayers to the family and department.
Charles F. Holloway, Jr.
Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association
Elizabethtown Police Department
February 3, 2022
The true measure of a person
is not found in the
might of their arm,
their wealth
or their power –
it is found in the strength
of their character.
There is no greater testimony to
ones character, than ones
willingness to sacrifice all,
in the noble quest of
providing protection to all
whom they serve.
Author Unknown
"Semper Fi"
Javier Cornejo
Police Officer, Retired
City of Milwaukee Police Department
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
February 3, 2022
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.
Assistant Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (ASAC)
New York Field Office
Federal Air Marshal Service
February 1, 2022
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office offers our heartfelt sympathy to your entire department and to the family of Special Agent Anthony Salas. May the outpouring of support and encouragement you receive from agencies both near and far, provide you with a measure of peace and comfort at this difficult time.
~Sheriff Brad Swain, deputies & staff
Liane Johnson, #53-66
Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Indiana
U.S.A.
February 1, 2022
PRAYERS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND OUR FAMILY OF BLUE. ANOTHER OFFICER TAKEN TO SOON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF YOUR COMMUNITY. REST IN GOD'S ARMS.
MOTHER OF A DALLAS POLICEWOMAN LINDA KE
None
January 31, 2022
Rest well good and faithful servant. Thank you for your service and may your family, family in blue, and friends feel the warmth of God’s arms surround them as they grieve your loss.
Connie Weber
January 31, 2022
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
It has been a year today since you paid the ultimate sacrifice doing what you love and the selflessness that you showed your community.
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
January 30, 2022
I am so sorry, Special Agent Anthony Salas, for the loss of your life in such a tragic accident. Thank you for your service. You are to be honored and remembered for stepping up to take on a job so desperately needed and so very dangerous. Thank you again. I pray you will be rewarded richly in God's Kingdom, rest in peace. My prayers of love and comfort to your family, the Department, Community and Friends. We are at a loss.
God bless and rest you in His peace,
Kim
Kim Durham
Christina Giannone - Police Officer City of Davis
January 28, 2022
Rest easy brother thank you for your service may your sacrifice or memory never fade.
Retired #8046 Jerry Matalone
Des Moines Iowa Police Department
January 28, 2022
Agent Salas, for many years, you dedicated your life to protecting others that they may be safe. Our Lord, who sees all and knows all, will reward you abundantly for your courage, dedication and selfless service. May God immerse you and your loved ones in His Divine Mercy. Rest in peace, good and faithful servant.
Jess Espinosa
Civilian
January 28, 2022
Semper Fi!! Rest In Peace Agent Salas. Thank you for your unselfish service to our country and community.
A/Commander René Barraza
Albuquerque PD
January 26, 2022
Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Rest In Peace SA Salas. Our deepest heartfelt condolences to all of your family, friends, and brothers and sisters at Texas Department of Public Safety.
Postal Inspector Scott Horne
US Postal Inspection Service
January 26, 2022
Rest In Peace brother
Sgt Benjamín Rodríguez Bermúdez
Puerto Rico Police Departament
January 26, 2022
Rest in Peace, Agent Salas. Thank you for your service.
May God comfort your family, friends, and fellow officers at this difficult time.
God bless and protect those that protect us all.
Private Citizen Kathryn Felts
Mother of & Family Member of Law Enforcement
January 26, 2022
My prayers for the Salas family and for the Texas DPS family.
Tom Williams, LADOT Retired
January 25, 2022
PRAYERS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND OUR FAMILY OF BLUE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF YOUR COMMUNITY. ANOTHER OFFICER TAKEN TO SOON. REST IN GOD'S ARMS
MOTHER OF A DALLAS POLICEWOMAN LINDA KE
None
January 25, 2022
May Our Lord have a Special place in his Heavenly Home for SA Anthony Salas. He is a True Hero. My Deepest Sympathies go out to his Family and His Department.
Michael T. Sullivan, Retired Patrolman
Chicago Police Department, 9th District
January 25, 2022
I’m praying for your family and coworkers. Thank you for your service. Rest In Peace.
Maxine, mother of
Deputy Josh Rutherford EOW 5/29/03
January 25, 2022
Praying for peace and comfort today and in the days ahead. With deepest sympathy,
Rita Rocker
Deputy Executive Director
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles
January 24, 2022
Thank you for your service, brother. RIP.
Lieutenant Brian J. Wills II
Oswego County Sheriff's Office
New York
January 24, 2022
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