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Police encounter with Black Army officer is a hurtful reminder that ‘service is not going to save you,’ veterans say Alex Horton Replay Video UP NEXT As an infantry soldier, Isiah Jones survived three brutal combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it was police outside the garrison walls at home in the United States who other Black soldiers warned him about. The first thing law enforcement would assess in any encounter, they cautioned, was his race. The lesson was fresh in his mind this past weekend, after watching viral video of a traffic stop showing a Black National Guard officer being pepper-sprayed, threatened, struck and handcuffed by Virginia police late last year.

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