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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 2260609" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/dallas-chief-david-brown-urges-protesters-to-join-police-force-1468273328" target="_blank">Dallas Chief David Brown Urges Protesters to Join Police Force</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“Become part of the solution. Serve your community,” said Chief Brown, at a news conference Monday. “We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and get an application in. We’ll put you in your neighborhood, and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20160709-how-police-chief-david-brown-s-whole-life-prepared-him-for-the-dallas-shootings.ece" target="_blank">How Police Chief David Brown's whole life prepared him for the Dallas shootings</a></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px">It's hard to imagine anyone embodying the complexity of modern policing more perfectly than the Dallas police chief. If you were to stage the ongoing national drama about cops and black Americans, every role could be played by David Brown.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px">He's a black man who grew up in a poor neighborhood. He's also a cop. His job, on Thursday, called on him to protect marchers who were protesting black Americans' treatment at the hands of cops.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px">That's just the beginning of his almost unimaginably complicated story. Brown's former patrol partner was killed in the line of duty. His brother was killed by drug dealers in Phoenix.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 15px">During Brown's first few weeks as Dallas' chief, his mentally ill 27-year-old son killed a bystander and a cop, and then was killed by cops. On Father's Day.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20160709-1468114866-david-brown.jpg.ece/BINARY/1468114866-david-brown.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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