[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 110 (Friday, July 8, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4553-H4554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           MOURNING SLAIN DART POLICE OFFICER BRENT THOMPSON

  (Mr. BARTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTON. Mr. Speaker, the entire Nation is aghast and shocked and 
in mourning about what happened in Dallas, Texas, last evening.
  One of the officers who was killed was an officer named Brent 
Thompson. He was a constituent of mine from Corsicana, Texas, and was a 
graduate of Corsicana High School. He was 43 years old. He had just 
gotten married 2 weeks earlier. He was a Dallas Area Rapid Transit 
officer, a DART officer, and he was shot--targeted--in cold blood by, 
apparently, an organized effort to target police officers, perhaps even 
Anglo police officers, in Dallas.

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  We need to pray for his family, and we also need to take a look at 
our society and make a decision that we should respect, admire, and 
support those who defend us.
  Our prayers go out to Officer Thompson's family.

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