Families Of Police Officers Filled With Dread After Dallas
(CBS) -- It's not just the police community touched by the shootings in Dallas.
Their families and friends are the ones sending the officers to work today in a tumultuous time.
CBS 2's Marissa Bailey caught up with two family members of police officers to talk about what they were feeling Friday.
There's no uniform at Marie's Café and Catering in Mount Greenwood. So, Friday, of all days, Joy Triezenberg wore a Chicago Police T-shirt.
"I like to show support for my father," she says.
He dad is a veteran Chicago police officer. She says the shootings in Dallas hit way too close to home.
"We have to sit and watch our fathers or our mothers go off putting their lives on the line just to support their families," she says.
It doesn't just affect the officers' kids.
Debbie Pyznarski's husband is chief of police in Chicago Ridge. He has been an officer for 32 years.
"Our guys are wearing targets, moving targets on their backs for the badge that they wear on their chest, and it's hard as a spouse to accept that," she says.
One of the hardest days of her life was filling out her husband's "line of duty death" form, just in case he died while on the job.
It's one of many sobering parts of the police spouse's life.
"Those policemen ran in to shield the protestors, the same people that were there protesting against them. They ran in and they shielded them from bullets and they lost their lives," Pyznarski says.
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 7 President Dean Angelo Sr. says he was shocked by what happened in Dallas.
"I think every officer is worried. I think every family of an officer is worried," he says. "No one plans for this. There's no training in the world that's going to prevent something like this."
