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Article: Police Department; gets a thank-you party Rally raises money for two shot officers
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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An event that organizers called "one day of thanks for a whole
year of protection" brought more than 2,000 people by late afternoon
to Walker's Point to support Milwaukee police and raise money for
two officers shot recently.
Thank You Milwaukee Police Department Day began at 9 a.m.
Saturday at W. National Ave. and S. 2nd St. near the spot where
officers Graham M. Kunisch and Bryan J. Norberg were shot June 9
after stopping a man for questioning. Both officers are recovering
from their wounds.
Organizers announced Saturday that money raised would go to a new
permanent support fund that would aid all Milwaukee officers wounded
in the line of duty, and that "TYMPD Day" would become an annual ...