About R. Scott Clark
R. Scott Clark is the President of the
Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several
books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University.
Read more» He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
I don’t get it.
This is what is done when a law enforcement officer (LEO) is killed in the line of duty. He has reached the end of (his) watch. The dispatcher sends out a radio call to which the LEO can no longer respond. It’s unusual to hear a dispatcher break up. They hear and repeat bad news for a living.
I don’t know of any similar ceremony in the UK, but in the not-so-distant past, when a police officer was killed in the line of duty, a memorial plaque/plinth was set up, sometimes at the scene of crime (as in Braybrook Street, East Acton, 1966), sometimes near the officer’s home (as in the case of Keith Blakelock, killed in the Broadwater Farm riots, 1985). For all I know, this may still be the case.
Thank you for sharing this. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
That’s heavy. Maranatha indeed.