HBO’s Inland Northwest — 12.8.09

A procession of police vehicles passes the Lakewood, Wash. police headquarters heading to the Tacoma Dome for a memorial service oday for four Lakewood police officers who were killed in late November while they worked on computers in a coffee shop. Hundreds of emergency vehicles and thousands of law enforcement officers came together in Lakewood/Tacoma, Wash., to honor officers Greg Richards, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Mark Renninger and who were fatally shot on Nov. 29. Story here . (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Peter Haley )

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Question: Did you follow the memorial service for the four slain Lakewood officers on TV or Internet cable? Reaction?