A Cop's Name You Don't Know but Should
On 5/10/21 at 1:33 PM EDT
You don't know his name. The nation doesn't either. But his story is a much more accurate reflection of the nature and character of the men and women who serve in America's law enforcement community than that former police officer's name we all know, Derek Chauvin, who was recently convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd.
Just two weeks after Chauvin took the life of an arrest suspect in Minneapolis, Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office in California responded to a report of a suspicious van. The 911 caller reported seeing guns and bomb-making devices inside the vehicle. When Gutzwiller and fellow deputies arrived at the scene, they saw the van leave and did what they were trained to do: They followed it.