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'The Shield,' Small Market Edition
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They kind of bury the lede on this one: A cop got fired, the articles say, for stealing some bits of double-sided tape from a crime victim's house, and, yeah, a cop can't be taking stuff from anyone like that. But he also allegedly defaced a poster of Africa in the house, circling the name "Nigeria" in what appears to be a stab at a slur-related "joke." This is like Al Capone going to jail not for ordering murders and breaking every law he could, but for tax evasion. He defaced a crime victim's property and basically committed a hate crime, but the tape got him fired. (WLTX-TV/Columbia, SC)
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