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Recent violent confrontations involving police are rooted in historic conflict
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“The policeman is our friend.” Those of a certain generation and demographic in America grew up believing this mantra taught to us by parents and teachers. The images of the kindly patrolman walking the beat was stressed at home, in schools and by a popular culture that showed uniformed officers as stalwart defenders of our security.