Family remembers officer killed in Clinton motorcade
A Dallas family is mourning the loss of their father, motorcycle cop, Victor Lozada, who was killed in a crash Friday while escorting Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
While we honor the extraordinary life of police officers like LAPD SWAT Officer Randal Simmons, we shouldn't forget about those officers killed in the line of duty in less spectacular form.
Lozado, it turns out, earned more than 135 commendations during a 20-year career, reports the Dallas Morning News, and once saved the life of a baby choking on a toy. On top of that, he coached his son's soccer team and worked extra hours at a local Target stores to earn money to pay for his daughters' quinceañera ceremonies.
Lozado's son, Victor Lozado Jr., 22, is a studying classical singing at North Texas University.
He offered this as the best advice his father ever gave him:
"When choosing whether or not you're going to do something, don't choose it because of money. Don't choose it because of pride. Don't choose it for anything else but one thing -- that it will make you happy."
"My father was very happy being a motorcycle cop, and that is what he wanted to do," Lozado said. "He died doing what he wanted to do."
Wow that is sad and true why only recognize the cops or officers that lost their lifes in a spectacular way but also those like officer Victor Lozado its sad it seems like he lived a good life but he loved doing his job according to his son.... to his family my sincerest sympathies
He was a fine officer in the Texas Army Nat'l Guard