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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016
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Gov. Kate Brown will pres-
ent the medal and an American
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a memorial Friday afternoon at
the Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center.
Thousands of people are
expected to attend the service
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Goodding, who was shot Fri-
day night while trying to arrest a
suspect on a felony warrant. He
died Saturday morning.
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die in the line of duty since the
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The Oregon Fallen Badge
Foundation is working with the
Seaside Police Department to
host the memorial.
The service takes place at the
convention center, but that facil-
ity is reserved for the Goodding
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gency responders. Organiz-
ers are requesting community
members go to Seaside High
School or North Coast Family
Fellowship on Wahanna Road,
where the service will be simul-
cast. Other venues in Astoria,
Gearhart, Seaside and Cannon
Beach will stream the memo-
rial live.
“We’re anticipating a few The flag at the Seaside Police Department flies at half-staff above flowers left to honor Sgt. Jason Goodding.
thousand people here, well over
the capacity of the convention
center,” Sgt. Eric Bunday of the
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lic Library and Seaside Public
but please do not park along the procession route.
Works Department — will be
closed Friday in honor of Good-
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“The family doesn’t pay a
dime,” according to founda-
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Providence Seaside Hos-
pital, where Goodding’s wife
works as a nurse, is assisting
with volunteer coordination for
the service.
Bunday told city councilors
the foundation is “here for you,
we are here for the Goodding
family and we are here for your
community.”
“We are so sorry we have to
be here,” he added. “We don’t
want to be here. But we are
honored and humbled that you
asked us to come in and help.”
Since arriving in Seaside and
experiencing the city “in this
hour of grief,” Bunday said, he
and Peterson have seen “a very
resilient, amazing community
that bonded around their police
department and the Goodding
family with love and support.”
“It’s a testament to you folks,
so thank you for welcoming us
in,” Bunday said.
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A public safety motorcade
procession, involving family
and hundreds of public safety
and emergency response vehi-
cles, will precede the service.
The procession begins at 10:45
a.m. at Camp Rilea Armed
Forces Training Center in War-
renton and ends at the conven-
tion center.
The southbound lane of U.S.
Highway 101 will be closed
from Patriot Way in Warrenton to
Broadway during the procession.
The northbound lane of High-
way 101 will remain open, but
will be partially detoured around
Seaside from Avenue S to Wah-
anna Road. Area travelers should
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tion and delays along the high-
way and streets in Seaside, Gear-
hart and Warrenton. The Oregon
Department of Transportation
will post temporary signs advis-
ing motorists of closures, delays
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attending the event are encour-
aged to carpool, walk or ride
a bicycle. Parking will be
extremely limited.
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Dangers: ‘We are constantly sending people to trainings’
multiple times, often people with
a history of aggressive behavior
don’t know if they’re armed, toward law enforcement.
and so obviously you have a
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he said. “And when you’re Training sets a minimum num-
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negotiations, or for whatever it
might be,” Bergin said.
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confrontation
With so many warrants of training is provided and regu-
varying severity but so few beds larly updated, Johnston said.
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choice but to release the inmates mini-academy: three days of
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offenders — a less-than-ideal confrontational encounters.
They learn to watch the sub-
situation that allows some career
criminals, like Ferry, back on the ject’s eyes (“Is she looking for an
street without ever really hold- escape route?” “Is he eying my
ing them accountable, Clatsop gun?”), body language (“Why is
County Sheriff Tom Bergin said. he removing his jacket?”) and,
“That’s where we run into most importantly, the person’s
a lot of problems,” he said. hands, because “that’s what
“Unless we hold people account- going to essentially kill you,”
able, we’re going to continue to Schermerhorn said. “Mr. Ferry
was not presenting his hands.”
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people they’ve already dealt with
In his career, Bergin has
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been hit and spit on. He’s had
guns and knives pulled on him.
He’s been bitten to the bone and
poked with syringes, he said.
“We see so much, and we
tend to want to throw up walls
and protect people, especially
our closest families and friends,”
said Bergin, a friend and neigh-
bor of Goodding’s family in
rural Seaside.
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they’re doing good for their
communities, because it is a
necessary job, one that most
people wouldn’t want to do.
“Who wants to deal with a
suicide? Who wants to deal with
someone who’s gone through a
windshield and might not be in
a complete piece,” Bergin said.
“Who wants to talk to a family
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place with their head blown off?”
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ones, may question whether this is
the right profession for them. And
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ing whether it is time to get out,
Warrenton Police Chief Mathew
Workman said.
However, “there’s a call-
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return to their jobs more quickly,
they can’t help but carry the
tragedy around with them.
“I can tell you that we’re all
grieving at the moment,” John-
ston said. “Jason, because he
was on the (Clatsop County
Drug Task Force) and also on
the Major Crimes Team, spent
a lot of time in all of our police
departments, and was well
known to all of us and well liked
by all of us, and it affects us.”
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responders have attended crit- nity where such violence hardly
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ings, a time when they discuss means something else.
“We have to explain to our
the ordeal and the feelings of
trauma they may be working kids, ‘It does happen here, and
it can happen here,’” Scher-
through, Schermerhorn said.
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Seaside and their department explain to your children.”
now,” he said. “They have two
different things they’re strug-
Community support
gling with, having lost a won-
But to see the commu-
hard to explain,” Workman said.
“Everybody gets into the pro-
fession for different reasons, but
there’s still that desire to help
people and that desire to make a
difference.”
“Every day,” Bergin said,
“we put on the uniform and go
back out to work because it’s
something that we know — as
a person, or as an individual —
that’s what we’ve dedicated our
life to do.
“And occasionally things go
wrong. However, most of the
time they go right, and there’s a
lot of satisfaction,” he said. “We
just want to make sure that peo-
ple always have a safe place to
go home at night.”
nity in general, and the law
enforcement community in
particular, pull together this
week to support the local
departments, and the family
of their fallen comrade, has
made a great difference, John-
ston said.
“You wouldn’t believe the
number of agencies that have
offered help, that are helping,
the number of things that local
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wide have volunteered to do.
It’s pretty outstanding.”
Workman led a tsunami drill
at Warrenton Grade School
Wednesday. At one point, a lit-
tle girl, about 6 or 7 years old,
walked passed him and said,
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Workman recalled. “I heard her
say that and told her ‘thank you’
as she walked by.”
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saying, ‘Hello’ ... it really puts
a smile on my face,” he said.
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really reinvigorates me.”
And it reminds him why he
chose his line of work: “We are
making a difference.”