A ‘goofball with a master’s degree’ remembered at police memorial in Nyssa

NYSSA – With a riderless horse, bagpipes and a law enforcement procession that stretched 12 miles, the people of Nyssa and law enforcement officers from across the West on Saturday honored Joseph “JJ” Johnson, a reserve police corporal killed on duty a week earlier. 

Johnson, 43, was picking up an extra shift for the short-handed Nyssa Police Department when he was shot to death. 

He is the first officer to die on duty in Malheur…