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WATCH: Kids pray for safe return of police officer father, all officers

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INDIANAPOLIS — It’s an image that sums up the grief, tension and fear that’s faced this nation over the last several weeks: An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer’s children praying for his safe return from work, and for all officers to return home safely.

TheIndyChannel.com reports the official Twitter account of IMPD posted the image Sunday night following a difficult day in which three law enforcement officers were shot and killed in Baton Rouge, La., while three others were injured.

It comes barely more than a week after five officers were killed in Dallas, and the same week Indianapolis had a brush with violence when a man shot at an IMPD officer’s home. Fortunately, no one was hurt in that incident. A suspect was arrested and remains in police custody.

IMPD did not say which officer’s family it was depicted in the picture, but they don’t need to: It stands for what all police families across the country are going through right now.

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