Miami Police Officer Lydia Marquez’s Facebook Plea: ‘Everyone’s Life Matters’
A Miami military officer says it all started with a elementary doubt from her 4-year-old son: Why
He wanted to know since she goes to work each day — and a answer from Miami-Dade military officer Lydia Marquez is going viral on Facebook.Â
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Marquez wants a universe to know that while military departments might have some “bad apples,” officers caring about safeguarding a public. Â
“We don’t ask a dispatcher, ‘Hold on, wait, is this a black chairman who’s calling, is this a white chairman who’s calling?'” Marquez says in a clip, that has been seen some-more than 11 million times given it was posted final week. “That doesn’t matter since we don’t care. We don’t caring during all. It’s not about color, it’s not about any of that, it’s about a fact that all lives matter.” Â
Marquez, who describes herself as white and Hispanic, pronounced she has awards, commendations and pins for her work, and they lay in a box collecting dust.Â
“I don’t wish any of that pinned on me,” she says. “The usually thing we wish pinned on me is my badge. Because when we perceived my badge, we swore an oath. we swore that we was going to strengthen and offer all people — not blacks, not whites. None of that. The promise is colorblind.â€Â
However, a stream sourroundings has done her pursuit some-more dangerous than ever, Marquez says.
“When we lick my children in a morning before we go to work and tell them we adore them, we don’t know if I’m going to be entrance behind during a finish of a day,” Marquez, who also has a 2-year-old child, says in a video. “I don’t know, generally nowadays, and it’s hard, it’s unequivocally hard. But I’m here. Why? Because we care, all lives matter, everyone’s life matters.”Â
Marquez told CBS Miami she wants people to know that military officers are operative with them — not opposite them. Â
“We’re here to assistance you
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