Bothell Police Department, Washington
End of Watch Monday, July 13, 2020
Reflections for Police Officer Jonathan Paul Shoop
Today, I will not answer the radio call that your boyfriend has come home drunk and is beating you again.
Today, I will not answer the radio call that your 16 year old daughter, who is very responsible, is four hours late coming home from school.
Today, I will not answer the radio call that your store has been robbed or your house has been burglarized.
Today, I will not stop a drunk driver from killing someone. I will not catch a rapist or a murderer or a car thief.
Today, I will not answer the radio call that a man has a gun or tried to abduct a child or that someone has been stabbed or has been in a terrible accident.
Today, I will not save your child that you locked in a car or the child you were too busy to watch who went outside and fell into the swimming pool, but that I revived.
No, today I will not do that.
Why?
Today, I was suspended from duty for doing my job, because the media, liberals, a community organizer, a lawyer who formally represented terrorists and is the US attorney general and a mayor who ran on an anti-police agenda, who are all advised by a drug dealer, liar and income tax cheat. AND, all who know nothing about Policing, have vilified my profession.
Because ----
Today, I was killed by a drunk driver while I was helping push a disabled car off the highway.
Today, I was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop to simply tell someone that they had a taillight out.
Today, I was killed in a traffic accident rushing to help a citizen.
Today, I was shot and killed serving a warrant on a known drug dealer.
Today, I was killed by a man when I came by to do a welfare check because his family was too busy.
Today, I was killed trying to stop a bank robbery or a grocery store robbery.
Today I was killed doing my job.
A chaplain and an officer will go to a house and tell a mom and dad or a wife or husband or a child that their son or daughter or husband or wife or father or mother won't be coming home today.
The flags at many police stations were flown at half-mast today but most people won't know why.
There will be a funeral and my fellow officers will come, a twenty-one-gun salute will be given, and taps and bagpipes will be played as I am laid to rest.
My name will be put on a plaque, on a wall, in a building, in a city somewhere.
A folded flag will be placed on a mantel or a bookcase in a home somewhere and a family will mourn.
There will be no cries for justice.
There will be no riots in the streets.
There will be no officers marching, screaming 'no justice, no peace.'
No citizens will scream that something must be done.
No windows will be smashed, no cars burned, no stones thrown, no names called.
Only someone crying themselves to sleep tonight will be the only sign that I was cared about.
I was a police officer
My thoughts and prayers go out to your family and your brothers and sisters in blue as another great officer was taken from us to soon. You will never be forgotten!
Rest Easy Brother as we will take it from here.
Misty Lang
Great Great Niece of Fallen Officer William Hiram Givens McDonald County Sheriff's Department, McDonald County Missouri EOW 02-04-1984
July 15, 2020
May the good lord welcome you with open arms, for you have done your job well.
Douglas J. Maykowski
Fraternal Order Of Police Central Macomb Lodge #187 Macomb County Mich
July 15, 2020
Rest in Peace my Brother in Arms
Anrae G Godley-Cooper
U.S. Army Military Police
July 15, 2020
On behalf of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office in Klamath Falls Oregon, we send our sincerest sympathy in the recent loss of your Officer, Jonathan Shoop, in the line of duty. It is always a huge loss when a fellow officer makes the ultimate sacrifice. His bravery and courage to protect and serve your community has not gone unnoticed. Our prayers and thoughts to the other officer that was wounded for a safe and speedy recovery. We thank Officer Shoop for his service as a United States Coast Guard Veteran.
Sheriff Chris Kaber
Klamath County Sheriff's Office
July 15, 2020
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
Abraham Lincoln
Lieutenant E.Kemmer
Nevada Department of Public Safety
July 15, 2020
Rest in Peace Brother.
Prayers for your family.
Thank you for your service and ULTIMATE sacrifice.
GOD BLESS
Firefighter Ronald Lavallee
Lawrence, MA Fire Department
July 15, 2020
Rest in Peace Officer Shoop. May the Lord grant your family, friends and co-workers peace during this difficult time. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Deputy Parole Administrator Howard Wykes
Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections
July 15, 2020
may HIS light shine perpetual upon his face
Chief Jim Allen (retired)
Mobile County Child Support
July 15, 2020
R I P Brother
Herbie Buck Ret. Officer
NYSDOCS
July 15, 2020
Rest in peace Brother Jonathan, you are a true American Hero and will never be forgotten for your service and courage.
Son of G. Truman Wortham EOW 07/15/73
Assistant Chief Carl Wortham (retired)
Tulsa Police Department, Sand Springs OK PD
July 15, 2020
Praying for peace and comfort today and in the days ahead. With deepest sympathy,
Rita Rocker
Deputy Executive Director
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles
July 15, 2020
Rest in Peace Officer Shoop. Thank you for your Service to your community.
My Prayers to your Family both Blood and Blue!!!!
Cpl. Terri Albright, #668
DuPage County Sheriff's Office
July 15, 2020
All gave some, some gave all, Rest in Peace!
Ptl. B L Waltz (Ret)
Avon Lake PD OH
July 15, 2020
RIP Officer Schoop.
Capt. Jeff Knop (Ret.)
Menomonee Falls (WI) Police Department
July 15, 2020
On behalf of Moms Back the Blue of the St. Louis County Police Family Association, we offer
our heartfelt condolences to the family (blood and blue) and friends of Officer Shoop.
We will be forever indebted to you for your selfless service and sacrifice.
Always Honored; Never Forgotten
Proud Moms from
Moms Back the Blue of the
St. Louis County Police Family Association
July 15, 2020
R.I.P Officer Jonathan Shoop
Brian Molyneaux
citizen
July 15, 2020
Rest in peace Officer Shoop. An Evergreen state hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 15, 2020
Rest In Peace...
Retired Detective
Syracuse Police Dept, NY
July 15, 2020
Session 18 of the
Zone 5 Regional Law Enforcement Training Academy.
We thank you for your service.
We offer our sincerest condolences to your family and friends.
Session 18, Zone 5 Regional Law Enforcement Training Academy
July 15, 2020
Rest in peace Brother.
Arrend Hoopes
Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office Va.
July 15, 2020
Rest In Peace Brother
james oneill
NYPD
July 15, 2020
RIP Officer Shoop. Thank you for your service to the country and the citizens of Bothell
Sergeant Darren Weisse
Tufts University Police
July 15, 2020
OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY OF OFFICER SHOOP, AND ALL THOSE WHO MOURN THE LOSS OF OFFICER SHOOP. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME.
HIS SERVICE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND HIS DEEDS NEVER FORGOTTEN.
GOD BLESS
Retired Officer David Herbert
Toronto Police Service, Canada
July 15, 2020
When I saw this news last night, I was absolutely heartbroken. I’m so sorry. Rest, my brother in arms.
Det. H Warncke
Seattle PD
July 15, 2020
I am sad to learn of he passing of a brother and hero in Police Officer Jonathan Shoop. I believe our Heavenly Father has welcomed him home into his loving arms where he will now patrol the Golden Streets of Heaven. May the Lord deliver blessings, comfort and peace to his family, friends and all members of the Bothell Police Department, Washington.
Retired, T W Martinez
FOP member
State of New Mexico/JJS
July 15, 2020