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TeddyR

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Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sat Aug 29, 2015, 05:57 PM

Aug 2015

I don't feel like it is "us vs. them," unless you are referring to criminals/killers vs. law abiding citizens/police officers, then yes, I agree. Not sure why you are trying to turn this into anything else than that. A police officer was murdered by a criminal, who hopefully will face justice.

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Some odds and ends inspired by the shooting of the officer in Texas..... [View all] hedgehog Aug 2015 OP

Well TeddyR Aug 2015 #1

I think the police officers do view themselves as seperate from the public they serve, hedgehog Aug 2015 #2

It's a brotherhood. Or, hopefully, a siblinghood Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #3