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"[Black officers] emphatically believe the blue shield impedes transparency and silences them from sharing their true feelings regarding the deadly force shooting involving their White counterparts… [One] feels the symbolic blue shield is meant to absolve police officers."

A Descriptive Existential-Phenomenological Study of Black Male Police Officers’ Experiences with a Racialized Deadly Force Incident
Ph.D. Dissertation in Education, Grand Canyon University
22 March
2020
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