Collums Column: Thanking Those Who Serve

Zach Collums • zcollums@delcojournal.com For most, thanking a firefighter or a emergency responder is easy. These are the people who serve our communities but never have to harm people intentionally. They are the people who we can thank and never have to question why we thanked them. For most, thanking the people whom, when it comes to it must harm people to keep us safe, is hard. Sure, there are bad examples of those people, law enforcement officers and military service men and women, w…
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Against a backdrop of violence by and toward police across the nation, opening statements will get underway Thursday in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist. A panel of 11 white jurors and one black juror will decide the case against Michael Slager, who faces 30 years to life if convicted of murder in the April 2015 shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott. Scott fled a traffic stop in North Charleston and his shooting wa…
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