A chorus of bagpipes filled the crowded 3,000-seat auditorium at 3Crosses Church in Castro Valley on Wednesday as the casket of fallen Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le was ceremoniously carried into his memorial service.

Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 29, 2023. (Oakland Police Department via Bay City News)

Outside the church, where a full rainbow formed above, hundreds of police officers in dress uniform stood at attention in the driving rain. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of law enforcement officers throughout the region.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.