LOS ANGELES — The black-and-whites stretched for half a mile Thursday as they followed a procession of motorcycle police officers along the shuttered 10 Freeway east of Los Angeles.
They came from far and wide, even beyond California’s border to escort the hearses carrying Sgt. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana, El Monte lawmen killed in a shootout earlier this month.
Fire ladder trucks formed arches at overpasses as the procession made its way from El Monte police headquarters in the San Gabriel Valley to the Ontario sports arena, a stone’s throw away from Upland, where the two family men lived.
