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Obama praises courage of police
For our LEO friends here, fair is fair.---
It begins when Marcano -- off-duty and on a date -- saw two muggers attack a cab driver in the Bronx, Obama said.
"He got out of his girlfriend's car to stop them and was shot point blank in the chest, a bullet inches from his heart," he said.
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"As his girlfriend was driving him to the hospital -- I'm sure not very happy with him -- by total coincidence, they ran into the shooter's getaway car," the president explained -- and so Marcano got out of the car again.
"He's been shot -- keeps pressure on his chest with his left hand, holding a service weapon with his right -- he runs after the suspects," Obama said. "He took one of them down, which led to the capture of the others."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/05/12/obama-ivan-marcano-top-cops/2153227/
