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Law signed making attacks on police in Texas a hate crime

by Chris Eger

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last week gave his approval to the Police Protection Act which ups the penalties for crimes against law enforcement officers.

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Fox news ‘expert’ jumps the gun shark on Dallas shooting analysis (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

According to attorney and forensic expert Jennifer Lee Barringer, you can turn any gun into an "assault weapon" by adding a scope you can buy at your local grocery store. Or something like that.

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Fallen Dallas officer was vet who called America ‘greatest country on the face of this planet’

by Chris Eger

Among the casualties in the ambush that left five Texas law enforcement officers dead last week was Officer Patricio E. Zamarripa, a patriot and Navy Reservist.

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Wildly divergent accounts of Dallas shooter’s rifle circulate

by Chris Eger

As official statements have excluded one of the most hot-button pieces of information, some have leapt at the opportunity to fill in the blanks with often agenda-driven speculation.

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Terminated: Dallas ambush suspect killed by explosive-carrying bomb robot (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

In an effort to save lives, the last chapter of this week's mass murder in Dallas came at the hands of a remote-controlled robot in what may be the first such use in this country.

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My thoughts on the Dallas police massacre

by Jeffrey Denning

I wore a Dallas police uniform many years ago and I visited some old friends there this week. We weren’t gone twenty hours before the mayhem occurred.

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Deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, fuel police tensions

by Greg Camp

Two recent shootings in Baton Rouge and near St. Paul remind us of the oppositional relationship between the police and ordinary citizens in America.

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