{"id":21721,"date":"2016-01-12T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21721"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:09:46","slug":"attorney-general-honors-uccs-other-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21721","title":{"rendered":"Attorney general honors UCCS, other first responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21722\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/All-LE-agencies-recognized-011215.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21722\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21722 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/All-LE-agencies-recognized-011215-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Law enforcement \" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/All-LE-agencies-recognized-011215-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/All-LE-agencies-recognized-011215-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/All-LE-agencies-recognized-011215.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heads of El Paso County first response agencies pose with Mayor John Suthers and Attorney General Cynthia Coffman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman honored Colorado Springs law enforcement and first responders during a Jan. 12 ceremony at Colorado Springs City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman recognized the UCCS Police Department, the Colorado Springs Police Department, the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the Colorado Springs Fire Department for\u00a0 actions during a Nov. 27\u00a0 shooting at Planned Parenthood&#8217;s Colorado Springs offices on Centennial Boulevard. UCCS Police Officer Garrett Swasey and two others were killed in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>UCCS Police Chief Brian McPike attended the ceremony and accepted the award on behalf of the department. Rachel Swasey, wife of Officer Swasey, also attended and thanked those who worked with her husband.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21723\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21723\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21723\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"UCCS Police Chief Brian McPike converses with Rob Aguilar who was Officer Garrett Swasey's father-in-law during a ceremony at Colorado Springs City Hall.\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar-750x608.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/McPike-Aguilar.jpg 2041w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCCS Police Chief Brian McPike converses with Rob Aguilar who was Officer Garrett Swasey&#8217;s father-in-law during a ceremony at Colorado Springs City Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEach of these men and women responded heroically to an emergency call, not only because it was part of their job, but because of their inherent sense of duty. These individuals represent the best of the best,\u201d Coffman said. \u201cThey did what our first responders do each and every day in Colorado. They risked their lives to protect Coloradans and prevent more casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers also presented the \u201cSpirit of the Springs Award\u201d to six civilians who assisted during the shooting rampage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"We Are COS 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/151592745?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Photos and\u00a0video\u00a0courtesy City of Colorado Springs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman honored Colorado Springs law enforcement and first responders during a Jan. 12 ceremony at Colorado Springs City Hall. Coffman recognized the UCCS Police Department, the Colorado Springs Police Department, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=21721\" title=\"Attorney general honors UCCS, other first responders\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-kudos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/All-LE-agencies-recognized-011215-300x236-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-5El","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21733,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions\/21733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}