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COLGATE4

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1. If the suspect was armed and, after almost an hour talking

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 04:01 PM

Jan 2018

with police he then, as the article states they saw him "get closer and closer" there comes a point when an officer will not put his/her life or that of fellow officers on the line. That sounds like what happened here.

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