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BComplex

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1. Boy! You can sure tell the difference between Brittain and the USA in this one sentence.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Sep 25, 2020, 11:38 AM

Sep 2020

"The police officer in Croydon is the 17th officer from the London Metropolitan Police to be killed by a firearm since the Second World War, according to the BBC."

Seventeen in seventy + years? Shit! We have probably 17 every year. Guns. Guns. Guns.

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London police officer shot dead inside police station [View all] Zorro Sep 2020 OP

Boy! You can sure tell the difference between Brittain and the USA in this one sentence. BComplex Sep 2020 #1

The judicious way in which firearms are deployed among patrolling constables Aristus Sep 2020 #2

The FBI says 89 LEO were killed in the line-of-duty in 2019 . . . Journeyman Sep 2020 #4

Holy shit! BComplex Sep 2020 #6

The 17th officer from the London Metropolitan Police Bayard Sep 2020 #3

22 since 2010. CanonRay Sep 2020 #5

See Aristus's post above. BComplex Sep 2020 #7