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    Our Lives Matter

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    A police officer shot and killed two unarmed civilians in front of the daughter of one of the victims. The officer had a history of misconduct, including previous homicides, but was still allowed to carry a firearm. The cases against the officer were dismissed internally by the police force. While most police officers do their duty, this case shows that a questionable person was allowed to remain in the police force until he took two lives. It reflects issues with the system that allowed someone unfit to hold a position of power over citizens.

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    Our Lives Matter

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    A police officer shot and killed two unarmed civilians in front of the daughter of one of the victims. The officer had a history of misconduct, including previous homicides, but was still allowed to carry a firearm. The cases against the officer were dismissed internally by the police force. While most police officers do their duty, this case shows that a questionable person was allowed to remain in the police force until he took two lives. It reflects issues with the system that allowed someone unfit to hold a position of power over citizens.

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    A police officer shot and killed two unarmed civilians in front of the daughter of one of the victims. The officer had a history of misconduct, including previous homicides, but was still allowed to carry a firearm. The cases against the officer were dismissed internally by the police force. While most police officers do their duty, this case shows that a questionable person was allowed to remain in the police force until he took two lives. It reflects issues with the system that allowed someone unfit to hold a position of power over citizens.

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    Our Lives Matter

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    A police officer shot and killed two unarmed civilians in front of the daughter of one of the victims. The officer had a history of misconduct, including previous homicides, but was still allowed to carry a firearm. The cases against the officer were dismissed internally by the police force. While most police officers do their duty, this case shows that a questionable person was allowed to remain in the police force until he took two lives. It reflects issues with the system that allowed someone unfit to hold a position of power over citizens.

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    #OurLivesMatter

    In the midst of angry screams, a police officer pulls the trigger of his gun. He shoots a woman
    first and her son second. With no ounce remorse or any sign of compassion, the police officer
    ended the lives of two people in front of her daughter. He started his day as a policeman, even
    her daughter shouts that she is one, but after this, he is not a policeman – he is a murderer.

    My day was disturbed by a ten-minute video filled with noise, wailing and gunshots. Captioned
    as “police shoots two unarmed civilians”, I felt a rush of anger running through my veins as I
    watched how two persons died in front of their house. I witnessed arrogance. I witnessed
    violence. I witnessed impunity.

    Throughout the day, I updated myself of what is happening with the case. I listened to news on
    how the murderer surrendered himself to police custody. I read on what caused the argument that
    led to the killings. I also familiarized myself with the parties involved. But of all the information
    that I came across, nothing puzzled me the more than reading on how the murderer was allowed
    to bring his firearm despite of the number of cases filed against him.

    He had more administrative cases than one person should have. His cases ranged from non-
    cooperation to a drug test to being implicated to two homicides. If these cases would reveal
    something, it is that this murderer is not fit to be a police officer. However, in spite of all of this,
    he was still allowed to carry a service firearm.

    The dismissal of some of the cases are also perplexing. Particularly, the cases that relate to grave
    misconduct in relation to homicide. These cases were all investigated internally by the police
    force. In highly fraternal and inclusive institutions such as the police, eyebrows would be raised
    as to dismissal of cases where death is involved.

    But I am just from the outside looking in. I cannot say with certainty that the police system is
    broken nor would I call for the abolishment of our police force. I do acknowledge that the police
    force has done their duty in most instance. However, in this particular murder, this murder by a
    questionable person of a police officer, the negatives outweigh whatever goodwill was
    established by the institution in the past. It took a killing of two persons to get an evil person out
    of the police force. It took two dead persons for him to become accountable for his actions. It
    took two persons, two lives.

    It does not help that some claim that this is an isolated case, that it does not reflect the entire
    force. While this may be true,

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