PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police need the public's help in identifying two people who they said dishonored a memorial dedicated to fallen officers on the North Shore last week.
Police released surveillance pictures of the incident that happened at the Law Enforcement Memorial just before 9 p.m. on July 30.
“If you look at the memorial, you see those names. They’re not just names, each one has a story and they have a family. They had a life,” said Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert, who stopped by the memorial to pay his respects Wednesday.
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From top to bottom, the memorial includes the names of fallen officers in Allegheny County. A monument not honored, but disrespected in recent days.
A woman took a wreath that had been placed at the memorial and threw it on the ground, then the man in the photo grabbed the wreath and stuffed it into a nearby garbage can.
Local residents were hurt to hear what police say happened here on the North Shore.
“My dad was a highway patrolman and so to hear about this really strikes me at the heart,” said resident Kim Thompson. “To take an action like this that dishonors the memory of police officers that died in the line of duty is reprehensible to me.”
This isn't the first time someone has disrespected this memorial.
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"This is a very special place to us in law enforcement. It's a special place to people in the community," Schubert said. "To defame and deface it, it's just very disheartening."
In recent weeks, we've been hearing a lot about statues being vandalized. On Memorial Day, Channel 11 told you about a war memorial in Lawrenceville that was defaced, and vandals recently struck the Christopher Columbus statue in Schenley Park.
"I can guarantee you, we are doing everything we can to find out who does anything to this memorial or any other place in the city," Schubert said.
If you know who they are, you’re asked to call Pittsburgh police at 412-323-7201.
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