Eric Swalwell: “Thank you, Chief Demings. Law enforcement families know the prayer from Matthew, chapter 5, verse 9, ``Blessed are the…”

“Thank you, Chief Demings. Law enforcement families know the prayer from Matthew, chapter 5, verse 9, ``Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.'' And blessed are the California police officers who lost their lives in 2020: Oscar Walter Rocha from my district in Alameda County, Daniel Lopez Mendoza, III; Andy Ornelas, Efren Coronel, Jose Cruz Mora, Jr., Angel De La Fuente, Larry D. Crom, Donald Keith Sumner, Virgil Lynn Thomas, Harry M. Cohen, Terrell Don Young, Daniel Gene Walters, Damon Christopher Gutzwiller, and MaryLou Hernandez Armer, as well as Pat Underwood of the Federal Protective Services. As a member of a law enforcement family, when we say good-bye to each other on the phone, we always say, ``I love you,'' but we also say, ``Be safe,'' because we know what our law enforcement officers encounter when they go into a domestic violence call or make a police stop in an area where there have been robberies, gang violence, drugs. In Oakland, California, four officers were killed in a matter of minutes after a police stop, when I was a prosecutor for the Alameda County District Attorney's office. We know the risk they face. I have a family member who has been shot at and was told that from such a point blank nature he is lucky to be alive. We are grateful for the sacrifices of law enforcement.…”