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ShazamIam

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1. Here is a story about a cop killer. Usually reports are made about line of duty killings when
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 02:31 PM
Apr 2021

there is a push to give police more power, or money.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/06/air-force-sergeant-who-allegedly-killed-cop-in-ambush-now-charged-with-assassinating-federal-officer/


Sometimes they are killed at traffic stops. One recent one.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/us/tulsa-oklahoma-police-dead-traffic-stop-shooting/index.html

The problem with U.S. policing is that poor people are the targets of law enforcement, it is as if we are to pretend the wealthy commit no crimes. Kind of like the old time Puritaincalfvinistic thinking, good people get rich the poor and wretched are sinners not favored with wealth by Jesus and get hell on earth.

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