Note to the "ladder of force left"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 23 12:12:19 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>That's OK. The NYPD are all heroes now anyway. Funny, all it took
>was to film them in slo-mo with the flag rippling in the background
>(emoticon of some sort here).

Some of them did run into a burning building to try to save people and died for it, you know. Not as many cops as firefighters did, and cops do a lot of nasty stuff and firefighters do almost none, but it wasn't just the slo-mo that made them "heroes."

Doug



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