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I do feel that the cops causing wrongful deaths to not only African American kids, men and women but ALL people should be punished. We should not feel that it is okay to kill each and every cop that we see. It is not okay to teach our kids if a cop pulls them over they should act out of character or kill the cop before they are killed. Have we failed to realize that these cops are often fathers and someone's son? To the cops that's causing wrongful deaths, have you failed to realized that you may have possibly murdered a child/children father and someone's son? Violence is not going to solve anything that's going on in this world. If officers decided to give up there occupation who would protect your family? If we did not have local authorities

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