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Collected Item: “Imagine being this fearful and demeaning to the community you're sworn to protect”

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Imagine being this fearful and demeaning to the community you're sworn to protect

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Instagram

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"At the end of the day, if we live in the city, that means we have to shop where criminals that we arrest also shop,"MPD Police Union Director Sgt. Anna Hedberg responded in an interview with WCCO when asked if officers should live in the neighborhood they police. "And I don't know about you, but I don't want to go to Cub Foods with my two beautiful little girls and run into somebody that I've arrested for sex assault, shooting somebody, using heroin."⁣

Imagine being this fearful and demeaning to the community you're sworn to protect.

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police, BLM, Black Lives Matter, community, George Floyd, justice, Social Justice, ASU, HST580

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CB1-EDDFQaE/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Drew Arrieta @itsdrw

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2020-06-24
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