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What are our police recruits being taught at our police academies? It seems as though they believe when they get that badge that it gives them a right to take a life for no particular reason. They should be taught that their first response should be to call for a backup and not to pull their firearm. Anyone with common sense knows it is better to let 10 guilty men go free than to take the life of one innocent person.

If you have been keeping up with the news you would know that a lot of lives have been lost due to bad judgement by the police force. The one that comes to my mind first is that one where a policeman was driving down a street and noticed a 12-year-old kid playing with a plastic machine gun. He pulls over and takes out his firearm and kills that kid. That policeman is back on the street now still carrying a firearm. He should have been charged and found guilty of at least manslaughter. That’s what would have happened to one of us average Joe’s if we would have done it. Is it any wonder why people are marching all over the country for the latest happening.

There are big crowds in all the major cities gathering and marching to bring justice for the latest manslaughter incident. I’m not sure, but I believe these crowds are as big as the ones we had when Trump got elected. There were big crowds then also that opposed his election. The other thing that is in the news is the pandemic. I have the prevention  and the cure for it. Remember you heard from me first. It is you have to eat plenty of lutefisk.

I try to put a little humor in all my opinions. I know how those pesky Republicans are lacking in their sense of humor. I am still bragging. I didn’t vote for Trump.   

Wayne Thorson

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