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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The Green Bay Police Department is honoring officers who were killed in the line of duty.
Wednesday’s ceremony marks National Police Week.
It included a presentation of colors by the Green Bay Police Department Honor Guard, invocation, and words from Police Chief Chris Davis and Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich.
Chief Davis says National Police Week is an important time to stop and reflect on the cost of policing in a democracy.
“Especially as a patrol officer, you live in a world of unknown risk and it’s one of those jobs, we used to call it ‘nine hours and 50 minutes of boredom, punctuated by 10 minutes of sheer terror’ everyday and you just never know,” Davis said. “I was reflecting on this earlier today, that every one of those people on that wall, [police memorial in Washington D.C.] and I know some of them, came to work that day with plans, things they were going to do after work and next week and the vacation they were going to take, and all of that went away in an instant.”
During the ceremony, a plaque recognized Green Bay’s only officer to ever die in the line of duty. Officer George Antone Motquin was hit and killed by a drunk driver at the corner of Main Street and Webster Avenue back in 1951. He was 36 years old.
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