Saturday Movie Matinee: A Warrior’s Funeral

While the nation mourned the death of an African lion, Hayward CA mourned the death of a police warrior – who was killed in the line of duty.

Via SF Gate:

Scott Lunger was a die-hard Oakland A’s fan and ice-cream lover who doted on his two college-age daughters. He slept in his car after his grueling shift as a Hayward police sergeant ended at 2 a.m. so he could play baseball in an over-45 league that started only hours later. He was like a kid in the candy store when a new call came over the police radio.

Those were just some of the memories shared as thousands of police officers, friends and citizens attended Lunger’s funeral Thursday at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

This is an undated image released by the Hayward Police Department shows Sgt. Scott Lunger. Lunger was shot and killed during an early morning traffic stop Wednesday, July 22, 2015.

Photo: Associated Press

Lunger, 48, of Brentwood was killed July 22 after he pulled over Mark Anthony Estrada, 21, of Oakland at 3:15 a.m. for driving erratically in his 2001 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, police said. Without warning, Estrada opened fire, striking Lunger in the head, authorities said.

A procession of police vehicles escorted Lunger’s body from the Chapel of the Chimes mortuary in Hayward to the arena. Mourners were greeted by a giant American flag hoisted by two Hayward Fire Department ladder trucks.

John Medeiros holds up a flag to pay his respects from the Paseo Grande overpass above Interstate 880 in San Lorenzo as the funeral procession begins to pass below.

To the strains of “Amazing Grace” played by bagpipers, Lunger’s flag-draped casket was brought into the arena as officers saluted.

KTVU: Sgt. Lunger’s Funeral – Brother Mike:

Sgt. Lunger’s Funeral: Daughter Ashton:

Truth Revolt: Josh Earnest Still ‘Merely Repeating’ Planned Parenthood Talking Points:

PJ Media: CMP’s David Daleidan Tells CNN What StemExpress Is Hiding:

Apparently, StemExpress receives fully intact babies from abortion clinics.

“Stem Express is trying to suppress a specific video recording,”Daleidan told CNN’s Alisyn Camerata.

“In a meeting with their top leadership, they admitted that they sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics they work with, and that could be prima facie evidence of born alive infants. And so that’s why they’re trying to suppress that videotape and they’re very scared of it.”

Camerata quickly steered the conversation away from born alive infants to claims that fetal tissue can be used for cures for “all sorts of diseases” and “saves lives.” (Which is nonsense.)