 A Facebook event page was created by Eastern Kentucky locals to hold a public gathering in support of all law enforcement officers and for those who lay their lives on the line every day to not only serve but to also protect. I met with Amy White, one of the organizers of the Support Blue Lives Matter event, to find out more on where and when this event will take place. I am in the process right now of setting up, I'm trying to get in contact with some city officials and due to state guidelines over the COVID-19 and we've actually had to reschedule so it will be sometime in July I will update on the Facebook page which is Support Blue Lives Matter it's an event page and I will continue to update everyone that was going to come to show support about when the time and the day and the location will be. I feel like in this time they're getting a lot of bad credit and I just wanted our local law enforcement to get the appreciation that they deserve so that's how that's why I wanted to organize this rally. Amy wants all law enforcement to know that even though there has been turmoil between citizens and officers of the law there is still support for all law enforcement in the mountains. In my opinion I feel like they are being demonized and anything that you do there's going to be a bad egg but I feel like every law enforcement officer is getting the brunt end of a mistake made by someone else that they don't even know so I just wanted to show them appreciation let them know that you know you do have a lot of supporters and we got your six especially around here. This public event will be a positive and peaceful community gathering and organizers are planning in accordance to the CDC's recommended guidelines and regulations we do have to follow the state guidelines and that is what I'm in the process of right now working with officials trying to get that set up I do say that people do need to wear their mask you need to practice your social distancing bring your hand sanitizer you know do all of that that you're supposed to be doing anyway in this time period of you know everything going on but do practice your social distancing at this event and that will be one of the main things and that will be covered. Just tell me what does a law enforcement officer mean to you? Protection. Honestly yes protection and they're here to serve they're just trying to do their job is all that they're trying to do and to me I know that if I was in some kind of trouble physical harm or anything like that I know that I could contact a police officer and he would be there for me. Search support blue lives matter and it will show up the event and you can contact me on that or if anybody has any messages they can contact me on my personal Facebook page and the event page will be the page that will be providing all the details and about how everything is going I will continuously update whenever I get approval from everything that I need approval for. I actually have on my thin blue line t-shirt today to show support you can wear your t-shirt to show local law enforcement support you can wear your bracelets your blue ribbons you can go all out that is what we want we want them to feel welcome and to show that so anything that supports the blue thin line wear it as far as you want to go. As someone who has lived and worked in Pike County for most of his life William Matthew Reynolds says that law enforcement officers in the region go above and beyond to assist the public. I have dealt with our local law enforcement on several occasions they've come to assist and I've seen what a great job they do how they handle people and how they treat people always fire and always respectable. Just tell me what a law enforcement officer means to you? Well for me it's somebody that you look up to you know just because you see a law enforcement doesn't mean there's a problem we can find bad in any job any aspect these men and women put their selves out there for us I mean they can go get different jobs this is the job they they love what they do or they would not be doing it. Reynolds personally describes law enforcement officers as quote heroes. They go wind to a situation that most people run from. If that's not a hero or somebody to look up to I don't know what is. One thing that always aggravates me when I watch these things on TV is you always have this guy or woman or individual out here with their video showing and videoing a cop or police officer in an altercation. I would not want to stand there and video that. I wouldn't want to try to help them. Stand back and watch an officer be attacked or have a problem is not. That's not support. Support is how can I help. By hearing our county and other counties we don't really have that big of issue but like I said before these officers go out at day time night time they don't know what that call is. They get called to go out they don't know what's going to happen when they get there. So instead of us always people being negative and looking at them as a thread or a problem look for the good look for the positive uphold and stand up for those people show your support not instead of sitting home and saying it come out yeah I mean it's a peaceful protest I mean just come out show your support walk up to them you know I know we're not supposed to we're supposed to social distance and not supposed to touch you can do that but show these people a little bit of gratitude. Please come out to this event it will be fun we will have inflatables and food and it's just going to be a good time for these and show these guys appreciation they're going to bring their families let's just make it a peaceful event and just to have fun reporting from Pikeville Kentucky I'm Jeremy justice with your mountaintop news