50-year-old Glenn Douglas Perry Died From Gunshot Wounds After Killing Chetek P.O. Emily Breidenbach, 32, And Cameron P.O. Hunter Scheel, 23, During Trafiic Stop In Barron County, WI

Two rural Wisconsin police officers were reported killed on Saturday afternoon by gunfire after a traffic stop in Barron County.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 10, 2023

Barron County, Wisconsin - Multiple rural police departments including other law enforcement agencies and the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office began to use a black silhouette of the State of Wisconsin with the "Thin Blue Line" (stripe) across the state, which refers to Blue Lives Matters, most members/followers are White law enforcement officers and their families, a Trump MAGA cult based support group considered to be anti-Black Lives Matters movement, which seeks justice for unarmed Black victims murdered by police. The imaginary image of the Blue Line or stripe was co-opted by supremacists (right extremists) to promote hate and the anti-racial justice movement during the 2020 Trump reelection for president campaign. It seems that many of the police departments in rural Wisconsin that are using the Blue Thin Line could be portraying themselves as supporters of Trump and his MAGA cult that is associated with supremacists. 

The "Blue Thin Line" with the U.S. flag was also used by Trump MAGA (Make America Great Again) insurrectionists during the January 6, 2021 insurrection of the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to overturn the presidential election in 2020. More than 950 insurrectionists were arrested including off-duty police officers after the failed insurrection. Many of them have been convicted and sentenced, according to the U.S.DOJ.

It's unfortunate that law enforcement agencies including police departments like the Cheteck and Cameron Police Departments and sheriff departments throughout Wisconsin like the Barron County Sheriff's Office decided to use the Blue Thin Line or stripe to mourn the loss of two White police officers in Barron County who were killed in the line of duty. 

Some Wisconsinites might misinterpreted the Blue line or stripe as an indication that the two White officers killed in Barron County could be associated with the White supremacy movement, which would be an insult to the officers and their families, if they were not associated to supremacists and were not sympathizers to the Trump MAGA cult in Wisconsin.

On Monday, both the Chetek Police Department and the Village of Cameron Police Department identified the police officers killed on Saturday afternoon, April 8, 2023 as Hunter Scheel, 23, from the Cameron Police Department, who was in the department for one year and Emily Breidenbach, 32, from the Chetek Police Department, who was in the department for 5 years. Officers Scheel and Breidenbach were fatally shot by Glenn Douglas Perry, 50, of New Aubrun during a traffic stop in Barron County.

Both Scheel and Breidenbach died at the scene and Perry died later at a local hospital due to multiple wounds.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation, the officers were doing a warrant and a welfare check on Perry for concerning behavior when he was stopped in the Village of Cameron and a confronted between Perry and officers during the traffic stop ignited.

The bodies of both Scheel and Breidenbach on Monday morning were transported to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office in St. Paul, Minnesota for autopsies to be performed, then later in the afternoon, they were returned to Barron County in Wisconsin for funeral services.