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Chris Frazier used to dislike the police.
Growing up, the French Middle School eighth-grader had been deeply influenced by accounts of police brutality and discrimination he had seen on TV.
But then he started talking with the Topeka Police Department school resource officer stationed at his school, and over time, he got to know the officer more deeply as a person, rather than some abstract figure and symbol of oppression.
Frazier began to see the police, but particularly those who work in schools, as a source of comfort, even if other students still held onto a skeptical, but not totally unreasonable, fear of police interactions.
Amateur Radio Credited with Rescue of Back-Country Hiker in Tennessee 04/28/2021
A back-country hiker was rescued from Great Smoky Mountains National Park with assistance from amateur radio after she became exhausted on the trail and possibly dehydrated. A member of the hiking group on the park’s Little River Trail, Tim Luttrell, KA9EBJ, put out a call on the evening of April 11 via the W4KEV linked VHF repeater in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, requesting assistance in extricating the injured member. No cell phone service was available at the location, and Luttrell’s signal was spotty at times, owing to the mountainous terrain.