The Los Angeles Police Department hosted the Heart of LAPD Wellness and Suicide Awareness Walk in Elysian Park on Saturday morning, which brought together officers, families, public safety leaders and community members in a show of solidarity for first responder wellness and suicide prevention.

KTLA 5’s Chris Schauble was live at the race Saturday morning and spoke with LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell on what makes the walk so important.

“This is to bring everybody together to share an awareness of what we’re doing here, not only for the wellness program for the department, but also for the profession of all first responders,” McDonnell said. “When you think about what we ask our people to do day in and day out – they go from one traumatic situation to another, compartmentalize it and try to mo

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