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dware

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33. Ya know,

Reply to doc03 (Reply #10)

Sat Jan 30, 2021, 12:12 PM

Jan 2021

it's easy to sit behind your keyboard and second guess the police that day, however, you weren't there, you have no idea of the terror they were feeling seeing that murderous mob heading towards them and knowing that you are outnumbered and possibly facing a massacre.

Try to put yourself in their shoes and show just a little bit of understanding what they were facing that fateful day.

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