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Fallen IPD Officer Memorialized After 101 Years

 

After 101 years a fallen Independence Police Officer has been added to the Kansas Memorial. On Sunday, March 21st, 1920 at about 11:30pm Officer C. A. McKinney was fatally wounded by gunfire. McKinney’s name has finally been added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington DC and the Kansas Law Enforcement Memorial in Topeka.

 

This Friday IPD members will attend the memorial ceremony. The service will begin at noon inside the Capitol at the second floor Rotunda and end with a wreath laying at the Kansas Law Enforcement Memorial located on the northeast corner of the Capitol grounds.

 

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