Jay Inslee: “I rise today to urge adoption of House Resolution 31 in honor of fallen police officers and, more personally and…”

“I rise today to urge adoption of House Resolution 31 in honor of fallen police officers and, more personally and specifically, in honor of a great Shoreline City police officer and King County sheriff's deputy, Mark Brown, who died in the line of duty Saturday, February 27, leaving his wife, Laurie, and Hannah and Alex, his children; and it is a personal matter because he was my cousin. Mr. Speaker, I want to tell the Members that I am proud that my cousin responded to an alarm last Thursday on his motorcycle and was pursuing his duties and was involved in a collision and died early Saturday morning, and I want to tell them that it brings home that we have many public servants who get up and risk their lives every day, and their families do not know whether they are coming home. Mark Brown was the epitome of a community police officer. Mark Brown, as a community police officer, I want his children, Hannah and Alex, to know they lost a father and we lost an American hero, Mark Brown.”