New York City Detective Steven McDonald, with his wife Patti and son Conor, at an awards ceremony on March 15, 2015. The brazen attack left McDonald paralyzed from the chin down and ultimately sent the shooter, Shavod Jones, then 15, to prison for nearly a decade. Our prayers for the McDonald family on the passing of Detective Steven McDonald. ”But I have realized that anger is a wasted emotion, and that I have to remember why I became a police officer.”Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson meets with Steven McDonald in December 1988. “Shavod Jones is with me wherever my story is told,” McDonald wrote.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2017 10:51 UTC