{"id":1485,"date":"2010-01-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/07\/thousands-gather-to-mourn-slain-officer\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:30:00","slug":"thousands-gather-to-mourn-slain-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/07\/thousands-gather-to-mourn-slain-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands gather to mourn slain officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported on this morning&#8217;s newscast, thousands will gather in Ottawa today for the funeral of Ottawa Police Constable Ireneusz &#8216;Eric&#8221; Czapnik. <\/p>\n<p>Czapnik died Dec 29th after being stabbed in a hospital parking lot.  The father of four was 51.  <\/p>\n<p>After his death, his family had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eric, who worked for 3 years as an Ottawa police officer, was a proud Polish Canadian who came to Canada in 1990. He was an engaged and dedicated police officer who truly enjoyed working in the community. He was a proud officer following in the footsteps of his father who was also an officer for over 30 years in Poland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s been 26 years since the last officer died in the line of duty in this city, Ottawa Citizen columnist <a href='http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Police+heavy+toll+serve+protect\/2413741\/story.html'>Randall Denley<\/a> thinks the career takes a heavy toll every day. <\/p>\n<p>CTV will air memorial coverage beginning at 1:00, in English, French and Polish. Speakers will include Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Ottawa Police Chief Vern White and family members.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Police department will provide a live web-cast <a href='http:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/en\/home.aspx'>here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported on this morning&#8217;s newscast, thousands will gather in Ottawa today for the funeral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}