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With the shooting death of a St. Petersburg police officer last night the total number of officers killed this year in Florida has risen to six.

Those deaths have occurred since Governor Rick Scott took office. Scott has attended funerals for all the officers and called last nights shooting tragic, but he’s sticking by his plan to cut the special risk pension plans for Florida law enforcement and firefighters.

“I’m trying to make sure that we have a pension plan that’s fair to taxpayers. It’s a pension plan that people that rely on it in the state know they have a pension plan, so the things that I suggest make all the sense in the world,” said Scott.

The cut would force law enforcement officers to work about 12 years longer to receive the same retirement benefits they receive right now.