First Responders

White Police Officers Targeted... On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson, a black male, targeted and ambushed a group of white police officers in Dallas, Texas, shooting and killing five officers, and injuring nine others after posting racist rhetoric on social media. Two civilians were also wounded. Killing anyone based on racial hatred is evil....

On The South Side of Chicago... Chicago Police Department Chaplain Bob Montelongo grew up with his two brothers in the tough south side of Chicago. The three brothers all became law enforcement officers. As a boy, Bob remembers the police officers trying to tame that rough part of the city: “There was something about watching...

California Teen Salutes Law Enforcement with Point 27 Gifts HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (June 9, 2022) --- Eighth-grade graduation for an apple-cheeked Lake Forest 13-year-old could have been the pinnacle of her year. But Alexis Taylor, daughter of Stacey and Orange County Dep. Sheriff Tom Taylor, has been focused, as well, on honoring area law enforcement...

Armed With Faith Point 27 Board Member Equips Arizona Officers with Source of Hope This month, Point 27 Board member, Pinal County Chief Deputy Assistant Matt Thomas, served as the conduit for honoring law enforcement officers in the Phoenix area: US Marshals Special Agents; Chandler Police Officers; and Apache Junction Police Officers; Arizona State Troopers,...

Marine Vet, former Detroit SRT SWAT Officer Emery Esse Completes Mission to Share TBL Tags, Gospel with Detroit PD From Florida to Detroit, a drive of more than 1,200 miles, wasn’t too far for Emery Esse to make to share the Word of God on Thin Blue Line Shields of Strength gifts from Point 27...

Point 27 Virtually Brings Supporters & Volunteers to Ground Zero Today on 20-Year Anniversary of 911 Scores of Fire Fighters, EMS Responders and Law Enforcement Officers – active and retired-- set out from Naples, Florida, August 21, on a 1700-mile Brotherhood Bicycle Ride to New York City to honor fallen first responders who sacrificed their...

Fallen Childress County Sheriff’s Reserve Deputy Tom Larry Hoobler honored by Point 27 ATLANTA (July 28, 2021)—Global nonprofit Point 27 recently honored fallen Childress County Sheriff’s Reserve Deputy Tom Larry Hoobler, who died from a fatal heart attack July 17 while working a highway traffic incident after directing traffic in the heat at the Childress...

Lubbock Co. SWAT Cmdr. Sgt. Joshua Bartlett honored Global nonprofit Point 27 https://point27.org recently honored fallen Lubbock Co. Sheriff’s SWAT Cmdr. Sgt. Joshua Bartlett, shot while responding to a barricade incident in Levelland on July 15. To honor Bartlett, Point 27 sent gifts of scripture-inscribed Thin Blue Line Shields of Strength dog-tag necklaces to the Lubbock...

We'd Like To Share This Letter This is Chaplain Brandon Gardner from the Springfield Missouri Police Department and I wanted to give an update on the dogtag distribution. I want to first apologize for the tardiness of this email. Initially, we were going to wait to give the dogtags out until we had our annual...