Selfie proves line of duty ruling for DC Officer Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith was funny, Erin Smith told me. He was even-tempered and he could be silly. They dated for weeks before he told her he was a police officer; he wanted her to get to know him as him, before adding the baggage of a badge. He loved her, she joked, but first he loved Mr. Bossman (Boss), his enormous Rottweiler/Lab/Bernese Mountain Dog mutt and then his 2015 Mustang GT. After all, they were there first.

But love for her and love for life shone in Jeff’s dark eyes from dozens and dozens of pictures: pictures of them dating, pictures of him with coworkers, pictures of him on the DC beat he loved for 12 years, the wedding pictures he took with Erin. Less than two years after those wedding pictures, he took one more picture that changed…