{"id":2716,"date":"2010-07-24T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/"},"modified":"2010-07-24T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:10:20","slug":"a-brave-officers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A brave officer&#8217;s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you see an officer making a routine traffic stop, consider what you&#8217;re about to see.  If YOU are the one being stopped, be extra nice&#8230; and keep your hands in plain sight at all times, just to make the officer feel more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"430\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"backcolor=0c2d85&amp;channels=BLUtube_Entertainment,BLUtube_Education,BLUtube_ScienceTechnology&amp;videoid=2255FC6CBF0691A3&amp;controlbar=bottom&amp;autostart=true&amp;videopublisherid=ca-video-pub-3847988346517368&amp;adtype=overlay&amp;showadsense=true&amp;videodescriptionurl=http:\/\/blutube.policeone.com\/clip.aspx?key=2255FC6CBF0691A3&amp;config=http:\/\/blutube.policeone.com\/embedconfig.aspx?key=2255FC6CBF0691A3&amp;autostart=false&amp;embed=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blutube.policeone.com\/mediaplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span>BLUtube is powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeone.com\">PoliceOne.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No doubt, some people will criticize some of this officer&#8217;s procedure.  I&#8217;m sure that he would now see things he could do differently.<\/p>\n<p>But the message here is the courage it takes to do the job at all, and the debt we owe to the people who do it.<\/p>\n<p>These two criminals, at least one a twice deported illegal alien, were obviously willing to kill anyone who got in their way&#8230;  and odds are good that they would have killed someone else had this officer not stopped them, been shot, and reported enough to get the criminals apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows whose life he saved that night, who is now alive because these killers aren&#8217;t now on the loose?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=a10b1e75-406b-87d0-9b0d-9f02b0a58b7e\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2716\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2716\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-2716\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/24\/a-brave-officers-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you see an officer making a routine traffic stop, consider what you&#8217;re about to see. 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