The first time I met Margie Weiss was just a few weeks ago. We flipped through her family’s photographs and talked about her daughter’s life.
Eventually, and then only ever so briefly, we spoke of her daughter’s death.
This week marks the first anniversary of Rachel Hoffman’s brutal killing and the possible signing by Gov. Crist into state law a bill intended to provide some protections to future confidential informants.
Hoffman, of course, was killed while working with the Tallahassee Police Department during a drug sting. Two men, Deneilo Bradshaw and Andrea Green, have been charged in her death and await trial.
Weiss was in Tallahassee that day we met to fight for the legislation that now carries her daughter’s name: Rachel’s Law.
I had seen lots of photographs of Hoffman before. Although we had never met and never spoken to each other before, I felt as though Weiss and I had. I’ve never met or spoken to Rachel’s father, Irv, but have watched both fight tirelessly for the new law to protect other confidential informants, other people’s children.
I simply don’t know where that strength comes from.
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