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  1. steve lacheen
    4 August 2022 @ 8:49 am

    We will never be able to change the police/black- man calculus until we can get the police to examine WHY they respond the way they do, not the reason they give but the real reason. And one of the reasons that has to be explored is why a particular someone becomes a police officer in the first place, not the reason they generally give, but the real reason.

    I have always thought that one change that might help would be to have police assigned to the neighborhood in which they actually lived. That certainly would have some obvious risks, but I would bet it would reduce the number of homicides (on both sides).

    Hey, what do I know?

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  2. Gary Beatty
    16 May 2022 @ 4:32 pm

    Will there be a follow-up story on the number of black men killed each year by other black men – a number that far, far exceeds those killed by police officers. Or don’t those black lives matter?

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  3. A Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer's Mea Culpa
    27 February 2021 @ 12:23 pm

    […] of the articles in it, “First…Kill All the Black Men,” talks about the struggle some police officers over the years have had in bringing black males […]

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  4. Sharlette Kellum
    13 February 2021 @ 7:25 am

    Thank you, Counselor PHILIP ROSMARIN.
    God bless you and keep you in perfect peace as you move with boldness toward justice.

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  5. Lewis Katz
    12 February 2021 @ 10:51 am

    I’m so glad I “subscribed” and even happier that you recounted the unbearable killing of Tamir Rice. Officer Loehmann and the union is still trying to get his job back, and he plays on a CPD officers’ softball team. Reform in Cleveland moves slower than a car driven by an unarmed dead man and his unarmed dead female companion after the car and its occupants were hit by 137 police bullets. I look forward to reading more. Lew

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  6. Dr Fahid Qurashi
    10 December 2020 @ 8:06 am

    Very powerful and touching – thank you for writing this piece.

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  7. Kamarudin
    12 July 2020 @ 5:25 am

    its their upbringing but on the negative part

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  8. Eze Eluchie
    12 June 2015 @ 2:55 pm

    Deep and moving.

    There is need to bring back justice into the legal system.

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  9. walli
    19 February 2015 @ 10:56 am

    Very powerful, moving and sad. This should be required reading.

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  10. Martha Warren-Rosefeld
    16 January 2015 @ 1:27 pm

    Wow…..Thank you for writing this…….

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  11. James Bordonaro
    17 December 2014 @ 3:22 pm

    Very well written and touching.

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  12. Bruce Luyendyk
    17 December 2014 @ 10:25 am

    Many questions…
    Why shoot?
    Why is first response shoot to kil?

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