Police Identify Officer Killed While Escorting Clinton’s Motorcade
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Police Identify Officer Killed While Escorting Clinton’s Motorcade
The motorcycle officer who died while escorting Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign motorcade Friday in Dallas was a married father of four, police said.
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(February 22, 2008)--Police Friday identified the motorcycle officer who died after a motorcycle crash while escorting Hillary Rodham Clinton to a Dallas campaign rally earlier in the day.

Police Chief David Kunkle identified the officer as Victor Lozada-Tirado, a married father of four children.

Clinton canceled a Fort Worth campaign rally shortly after the officer's death.

She said a rally would be inappropriate so soon after the officer's death.

The officer died after his motorcycle crashed just past a sharp turn in a viaduct over the Trinity River between downtown and the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.

Aerial video showed wreckage scattered for several yards and emergency medical technicians laboring to treat the officer.

In a statement to reporters at the Dallas rally, Clinton said, "We are just heartsick at this loss of life in the line of duty."

She said she plans to contact the officer’s family as well as the police chief.

Mrs. Clinton was visibly upset when she told supporters of the officer's death and praised the law enforcement officers who have been with her every step along the campaign trail.

She now heads to the other March 4 battleground state, Ohio.

Her next event Friday evening will be in Columbus.

Latest Comments

Posted by: Marie Location: Waco on Feb 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM

Ok, lets get back to the point before this get really political!! An officer has lost his life doing his job. My thoughts and prayers are with the family and the PD that has also lost a member of their family.
Posted by: anonymous on Feb 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM

Weren't they saying friday this officer was a woman?
Posted by: ALL Location: Waco on Feb 25, 2008 at 11:32 AM

Hitlery is lying. She is loving the publicity. She is total garbage. This man was forced against his will to be in the witches motorcade and now he is dead. First Vince Foster and now Victor Lozada-Tirado.
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