Erasing the thin blue line and returning to nature, red in tooth and claw

Raleigh, N.C.: Reopen your business and “you will be arrested”; loot and burn it down? You go, girl!

“When the greater risk is of injury to the officer, and I had five injured last night – a building? A window? A door? The property that was in it can easily be replaced. But for a person who has had officers shot. And more recently than not, I will not put an officer in harm’s way to protect the property inside of a building. Because insurance is most likely going to cover that as well but that officer’s safety is of the utmost importance,” Deck-Brown said.

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