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Clay Phillips: Why are today’s police standing down in face of looters?

Where is the sanity?

Martin Luther King marched with a peaceful protest and was greeted with water cannon, tear gas and attack dogs. Today the police “stand down,” back up, or whatever and let the looters burn and loot. This is too serious to be comedy. But the leadership is close to it!

Clay Phillips, Atwater

This story was originally published May 6, 2015 at 1:56 PM with the headline "Clay Phillips: Why are today’s police standing down in face of looters?."

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