Question for Tennessee LEOs about funeral

[E4 No More]

It is not always the person who passed you are showing respect to but the family of that person no matter what they did.
 
I have asked myself that question several times while at funerals of people I have had issues with but sometimes it is the family of that person I am there for.
 
Just my perspective on it.

I appreciate that perspective. Having buried both of my parents, (at different times), I was more focused on my family's needs rather than the traffic around us at the time. I also did several funeral escorts as a LEO, and I guess that I look at it also from that perspective of doing something unexpected in traffic as happened yesterday when people suddenly stopped in the roadway - I couldn't see the hearse coming because of a dip in the road.

In MO you cannot pass or disrupt a funeral procession by law passed out of respect and good order.

[GoneBallistic]

How do you know that the person who died was respectable? What if the person you are showing respect to was a murderous child molester, or even worse, someone like Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi?

You don't. You just give them the benefit of the doubt. I'd rather stop for a child molester than keep driving for a Medal of Honor recipient.

[E4 No More]

You don't. You just give them the benefit of the doubt. I'd rather stop for a child molester than keep driving for a Medal of Honor recipient.

Good point.

[sigmtnman]

Yesterday, we stopped for a procession on hwy 411, as did everyone else on the road.  There was even an 18 wheeler who stopped and pulled off, which surprised me until I saw he was from Chattsworth.

Edited February 18, 2013 by sigmtnman