Fred Rowbotham: Why Police Officers Are My Hero

There are many people in this country that are my hero that have no idea that they are a hero to me. Police Officers are one of my biggest heros in my life. They risk their lives every day to keep the country working smoothly. Every time someone needs a law enforcement officer it is most likely their worst day, nobody calls an officer on a good day. In the recent social climate they do not get a good rep and that really makes me sad because of a couple bad apples ruin the reputation of the whole group of law enforcers. Fred Rowbotham was having a day off from the line of the duty with his wife. They were at the country music festival Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada and the headlining artist just walked on stage to perform. He is midway through his first song and Fred starts hearing the sound of what sounds like fireworks in rapid succession. He then hears another burst and realizes that those are not fireworks those are gunshots. He snaps into police officer mode and starts directing the mass of people. As he is directing the mass of people he is struck by shrapnel from a stray bullet. He does not realize it until the wind pushing his bloody shirt against his body and he feels the cool, wetness of his shirt on his skin.
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Lance was attending the same festival as Fred and was enjoying his time just as much as his fellow officer was. When the gunfire started he immediately found people to shield and started directing concertgoers on where to go and the safest places to go were. A family that Lance helped reported to a news organization that he was covering them and assuring them that they were not going to die today and he was going to make sure that they are going to get out of there alive. In a later interview, he was asked about his heroic actions and he replied “I’m no hero, I just did what needed to be