Videographer travels country honoring fallen officers, fighting false narratives

(PHOTO)

Morris visited the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office where Katie Leising died serving. Alpha News

The founder of Support Our Shields, Henry “Hollywood” Morris has traveled upwards of 42,000 miles in more than three years to visit dozens of law enforcement agencies in 25 different states to memorialize our first responder heroes through plaque presentations and moving videos—long after the headlines fade.

Morris began his quest after “watching the summer of madness, as I call it, 2020 … we literally saw this movement grow about defunding the police. Everything that happened in the wake of the George Floyd incident, watching police be demonized, not only in Minneapolis, but all across the country,” Morris told Liz Collin in Monday’s edition of Alpha News’ Liz Collin Reports.

Morris is open about the fact that he didn’t have an easy childhood growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as his parents struggled with substance abuse and domestic violence. “One major difference was that when I was a kid, police were held as heroes [in] society, whether it was TV or education. That was the norm for me.”

It wasn’t uncommon for police to be called to his own childhood home. “It was the way that those officers handle very difficult situations, with small children. I would say this about my parents also, they did not blame the police for their problems. They were honest that these were consequences of their own actions.”

Morris made a trip this summer to our area. He flew to MSP airport and drove to Fargo, N.D., to honor Jake Wallin of the Fargo Police Department. He then drove to Pope County to pay his respects to the Pope County Sheriff’s for the loss of Deputy Josh Owen. From there, he drove to Wisconsin where Hunter Scheel of the Cameron Police and Emily Breidenbach of the Chetek Police died in the line of duty. He also presented a plaque on the trip to the St. Croix County Sheriff’s where Katie Leising died serving.

Morris said he has received resistance from “progressive” nonprofits calling him a “sellout” for the work he’s been doing. “When you combine the rhetoric that you’ve seen … it exploded in 2020, but if we go back to Ferguson in 2014, we’re talking about a decade timeline where this has been building and building. Now, we’re seeing all of the fallout from basically 10 years of what I call evil propaganda that is wreaking havoc on the men and women of law enforcement … they have a script that they stick to so they can continue to get the funding and they couldn’t care less whether the police are thrown under the bus as long as it enriches them,” Morris said in response to his critics.

“We must put silly differences aside and stop allowing what the enemies of freedom are using to divide us. In the last four years, it’s been our skin tone. We will lose the greatest country ever known to man and we can’t do this. We have to speak up and get active and stand up and stand with those who are literally dying for the freedoms that we enjoy every day. We cannot take it for granted any longer.”

Hollywood Morris is using his retirement funds to pay for his own travel and time to put his videos together. You can help Support Our Shields by making a donation at https://supportourshields.com.

– Alpha News