Local Policeman Killed in Fox Lake, Illinois-- Part 4: Blue Lives Matter, Too

SEPTEMBER 2ND, WEDNESDAY

This was the first thing I checked online when I got on the computer.  Sadly, by 10 a.m., the murderers had not been caught,  The police are still searching the big area south of Fox Lake from Sayton Road along US-12, Rollins Road and Ill. Highway 59.

Personally, I believe the killers must be a long way away from here.  I know if i had done what they did, my first thing to do would be to get as far away as possible.

The authorities are keeping pretty much mum on any evidence they have and rightfully so.  There is some question as to Joe Gliniewicz's gun.  yesterday we heard that they had taken it.  This morning the Tribune said the gun had been found.

A big fathering is planned for late afternoon at the Fox Lake Lake Front Park on Nippersink Lake.  Several thousand are expected.  We at first planned on going until we heard how many people were going to be there until we heard how many were expected.  Lake Front Park can only hold so many cars, so parking would be a huge problem not to mention sitting and standing.

We went to Donovan's and watched the ceremony.  At first, there did not appear to be many people there and we thought that we should have gone, but by the time it started, it was standing room only.  We watched it at Donovan's.  Everybody in the place was also watching and conversation mostly ceased.  One of out buddies there is Jerry who is a retired Chicago policeman.  He was livid over the whole thing and understandably so.  All you hear nowadays is cop brutality to blacks, but they have a really dangerous job.  I'd hate to think what would happen to good people if the cops weren't there.

Not only did Joe Gliniewicz, "G.I. Joe" as he was called, have Fox Lake connections, but also he grew up in nearby Antioch, Illinois, and graduated from that high school.  This is also where he lives with his wife and four sons, two of whom are active duty military.

Two Villages Mourn Their Own.