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Kate O'Neill, Madelyn's sister Ellen Linsenmeir, who died after 14 years of combating opioid addiction, said the police chief's reaction to the obit was right.
Ryan Mercer, writer at Free Press
Kate O'Neill, sister of Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir, who died after 14 years of fighting opioid addiction, reviews a lifetime of family photos. O 'Neill wrote an obituary that frankly described how opioids destroyed her sister's life, which drew the country's attention.(Photo: RYAN MERCER / FREE PRESS)
The obituary of a Vermont mother who died after 14 years of fighting opioid addiction caught Ivanka Trump's attention.
Trump, who describes himself on Twitter as a mother and advisor to his father, President Donald Trump, congratulated Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir's family for this "raw, beautiful and devastating obituary".
In Wednesday's tweet, she called on citizens to mobilize against the opioid epidemic, which she called "crisis of epic proportions".
Linsenmeir, of Burlington, passed away on Sunday, October 7, 2018. Her family described his decades-long battle for his son and possibly his life in the obituary of BurlingtonFreePress.com, which went viral.
Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir of Burlington passed away on October 7 after struggling for years against opiate addiction. (Photo: COURTESY)
This week, the family's story about "Maddie" was covered by national media, including The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News and ABC News.
Vermont political leaders, including Christine Hallquist, who became the first transgender person in August to win a major nomination for governorship, went on Twitter to express their emotional reaction to obituary.
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Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo, formerly of the New York City Police Department, also expressed a strong opinion about the obituary in an article published by Facbook Wednesday that began with "J & # I have a problem with this obituary. "
The head of the largest city in Vermont, where Linsenmeir was born and spent most of her life, asked why this obituary had attracted national media attention as "nearly 250,000 people have already died in the same way as Maddie ".
He concluded with a public plea: "Go ahead, get to work, we still need to win the feelings that his obituary inspired us, we should have felt it years ago."
More: What happens when the words of a police chief become viral?
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