[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10875]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   OFFICER BRYAN HEBERT, TEXAS LAWMAN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, over the weekend John Wesley Nero got 
into an argument with his mother and his grandmother. So, being a 
scoundrel, he beat them both up and then fled into the darkness of the 
night.
  Local Beaumont, Texas, police officers confronted the outlaw to talk 
to him, but he fled away in his truck, and a high-speed chase occurred.
  Meanwhile Officer Bryan Hebert--right here is a photograph of him--
had positioned his vehicle ahead of the chase. He attempted to retrieve 
road spikes out of the trunk to stop Nero's vehicle. According to 
witnesses, when Nero spotted Hebert's car, Nero intentionally crashed 
into Hebert's patrol car, shoving the vehicle over Officer Hebert and 
killing him.
  Officer Bryan Hebert, 36, was a 10-year veteran of the Beaumont, 
Texas, Police Department. John Wesley Nero is charged with capital 
murder.
  Officer Hebert and police officers like him protect the rest of us 
from killers like Nero. They are the wall between the law and the 
lawless, the barrier between us and evildoers.
  So today the badges of peace officers in southeast Texas are covered 
with the black cloth of sacrifice in honor of Officer Hebert, a lawman 
who sacrificed life to uphold the law.
  And that's just the way it is.

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