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Black surgeon recalls pain of police shootings

After being thrust into a maelstrom of emotion from a deadly shooting in Dallas last July, a trauma surgeon still thinks about the families of the officers who were shot.

by Cassandra Pollock

Officers salute in honor of fallen police at Dallas hospital on July 8, 2016.
Credit: WFAA

After being thrust into a maelstrom of emotion from a deadly shooting in Dallas last July, a trauma surgeon still thinks about the families of the officers who were shot. (NBC DFW)

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