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RIP. This is why folks intuitively respect police officers. Because in the end, it’s a profession that requires some of them to sacrifice in order to protect the rest of us.
Having said that, I do believe that if the current trend of many police departments - where they confront rather than protect the public they serve, where they do everything to protect themselves vs us, where they essentially try to put themselves above the law they themselves are supposed to enforce - continues, that respect will not last. You can already see this trend happening in way too many places in the US. It’s a pretty sad situation, really.
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Orozco’s newborn daughter will never know her mother and how brave she was. How incredibly sad that is. I hope the rest of the family does what it can to keep her memory alive for the girl.
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Very sad. Life was just getting going for her.
And I suppose this means that they won’t override Ricketts’ veto on the death penalty ill 
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Very sad.We have a pretty decent police department here in Omaha, I think. There have been a couple of bad policing incidents in the last few years, and the cops have been punished or fired. I know someone who worked in the department (civilian) who saw some stereotypical cop behavior, including racism, but community relations are better than in many places. Or that’s my perception, not living in any of the gang neighborhoods.
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