In a driving rain, Boston Police Officer Thomas Griffiths; Attorney General Eric Holder; Craig W. Floyd, chairman of National Law Enforcement Museum Memorial Fund; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) ceremonially shoveled dirt in an important step to make the museum a reality.
Officer Thomas Griffiths, brother of Boston police Detective Sherman C. Griffiths, who was killed during a drug raid in 1988, participated in the ceremony and was moved to see his brother’s name on the memorial wall.
Photo by Lonnie Tague