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Crime and Justice

1,000 Words: How we feel

Bob Collins July 8, 2016, 8:04 AM Jul 8, 2016

It’s been a bad 24 hours for words.

A Dallas resident sits near the scene where four Dallas police officers were shot and killed on July 7, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images.

A Dallas police officer, who did not want to be identified, takes a moment as she guards an intersection in the early morning after a shooting in downtown Dallas, Friday, July 8, 2016. AP Photo/LM Otero.

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About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.