Remembering Officer Daryl R. Pierson Rochester Police Department — Tactical Unit End of Watch: September 3, 2014 Twelve years later, we still say his name. Daryl was 32. An East Rochester kid, a three-sport athlete, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, a National Guardsman, and an eight-year Rochester police officer. Badge 46. Husband to Amy. Father to Christian and Charity. He had just come back from eight months off with a hand injury. Those months let him be home for his infant daughter and walk his son into the first day of school. The next night he was back on the street, doing the work he was known for: taking a dangerous person off Hudson Avenue so someone else’s family could be safe. He was remembered as a steady partner in chaotic moments, a cop who went after illegal guns, and a man who put family first. As one speaker said at his funeral: it was not how he died that made him a hero. It was how he lived. Today we honor a father who never got to watch his children grow up, a partner who never came home, and an officer whose name is still carried on pins, a post office in East Rochester, a blood drive that keeps giving life in his memory, and the work his brothers and sisters still do. Gone, but never forgotten. EOW 9/3/14. #NeverForgotten #EOW #OfficerDown #RPD #DarylPierson #ThinBlueLine – at Fort Drum, NY