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Letter: Police duty was to stop Zambrano-Montes

When I was young, I had two different friends suffer from thrown rocks. One suffered from the loss of an eye, and the other from a facial wound.

The difference is that they were very young and Zambrano-Montes was old enough to know better than using rocks as weapons. He could have killed one of the policemen, or even a bystander, so their duty was to stop him.

Eva Lou Fleming

Richland

This story was originally published September 16, 2015 at 12:22 AM with the headline "Letter: Police duty was to stop Zambrano-Montes."

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