[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14120]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE OF DEPUTY JACK HOPKINS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, as the House reconvenes and gets back to 
business, we are reminded that public safety is a 24-hour business.
  I rise tonight, sadly, in memoriam of Deputy Jack Hopkins of Modoc 
County in northeastern California. He was killed in the line of duty 
while responding to an early morning call.
  When I heard of this tragic killing, I was stunned for many reasons, 
part of which, Modoc County is a very quiet, rural place, about as far 
as you can go in California and still be in California. It just doesn't 
seem like the place to keep adding to the story of our officers being 
killed in the line of duty all over this country.
  Deputy Hopkins began working with the Sheriff's Office in 2015, and 
previously had worked for the Alturas Police Department in Modoc 
County. He was born in Livermore, California, named after his 
grandfather, who was the first mayor of Rolling Hills Estates.
  He grew up in Montague, which is in neighboring Siskiyou County, with 
his five siblings: Samuel, Christina, Amanda, Josh, and David Cooksey. 
Also, he is survived by his parents, Lance and Carol; his grandmother, 
Twila; his wife, Janet; and three children.
  He attended Butte College, my alma mater, in their Law Enforcement 
Academy, along with his brother Sam. Hopkins also earned a black belt 
in karate and won a world championship title in 2011.
  He is honored by hundreds of law enforcement and emergency personnel, 
local residents, and many, many others who recognized his sacrifice in 
a procession from Alturas to Reading, and then another one from Reading 
up to his final resting place in the Yreka area in Siskiyou County.
  What this points out is that our sheriffs and our officers in rural 
areas often patrol hundreds of miles alone, with the closest backup, at 
times, maybe even being hours away. Indeed, a lot of times they are 
working alone.
  In memory of Deputy Jack Hopkins, we need to do much better as a 
country in supporting them and stop this rhetoric that is against our 
officers.
  God bless him. God bless his fine family.

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