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<\/p>\nSacramento, CA… Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement regarding the COVID-19 related deaths of Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office Deputy Oscar Walter Rocha and Los Angeles Police Department Officer Valentin Martinez: \u201cThe deaths of these two heroes is a very real and painful reminder of the risks these men and women face every single day protecting the people of California. Jennifer and I extend our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Deputy Rocha and Officer Martinez as they grapple with these tremendous losses.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Deputy Rocha, 57, died Thursday night from complications relating to COVID-19, following three weeks in intensive care. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, two sons, a stepdaughter and stepson, and his parents, Oscar and Rosario Rocha.<\/p>\n
Officer Martinez, 45, had been fighting COVID-19 since May 24, 2020, and died Friday from complications due to the virus. The father-to-be is survived by his partner, Megan Flynn, who is expecting twins, sister, brothers, and his parents, Ricardo Sr. and Maria Martinez.<\/p>\n
Flags at the State Capitol will be flown at half-staff in honor of Deputy Rocha and Officer Martinez.<\/p>\n
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Sacramento, CA… Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement regarding the COVID-19 related deaths of Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office Deputy Oscar Walter Rocha and Los Angeles Police Department Officer Valentin Martinez: \u201cThe deaths of these two heroes is a very real and painful reminder of the risks these men and women face every single day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Gov-seal.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}