“Our Country Is Better Than That”: Two Responses to Tragedy

“We are hurting,” David Brown, the chief of the Dallas Police Department, said at the beginning of a press conference on Friday morning. “Our profession is hurting. The Dallas officers are hurting. We are heartbroken. There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city. All I know is that this must stop—this divisiveness between our police and our citizens.”

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