Police widows angry city may cut benefits
Watch this news report carefully. This is the most effective argument we’ve seen against making any cuts to benefits of law enforcement officers and their families. Get a friendly reporter in your city to interview survivors who tell their stories and talk about what will happen to them and their families if the cuts go through.
From kens5 News: Lisa Perez was three-and-a-half months pregnant when her husband, San Antonio Police Officer Oscar Perez, was shot and killed while trying to execute a warrant at a south-side motel in March 2000.
Lisa was left to raise the couple’s three young children, including a son who never got the chance to meet his father.
“I explain to him that his dad was a man that loved him very much even before he was born and he loved his family and he loved the city he believed in and he died protecting the city,” said Perez.
Perez is one of more than a half-dozen wives of SAPD officers killed in the line of duty who have come forward to criticize recommendations to reduce health care benefits for the city’s first responders.
“To say they are going to take from people who gave everything, whether they’re coming on, retired, sick, whether they die in the line of duty. I don’t think they realize what these guys do every day,” said Kimberly Wheeler.
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