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As he stares down his retirement on Thursday, Kings County Sheriffâs Deputy Darrin Ellis has worn a lot of hats and done a lot of work in his 31-year career.
For his fellow deputies, he was a colleague. And for children in Kings, he was their school resource officer, brandishing McGruff the Crime Dog puppet far more readily than a baton or a gun.
For many youths who played football in the area, he was âCoach.â Thatâs what one of the young men he ran into earlier this week called him while buying his coffee.
âWhenever that kind of stuff happens, itâs very humbling,â Ellis said. âYou go through life hoping youâve done a good job, but not knowing if you have. And so when someone tells you that you have, thatâs always a really good feeling.
Sometimes it seems like our country, our counties, and our communities are so polarized we can t even agree on what time it is. We re like a broken clock that
isn t right twice a day. It s a sad state of affairs when fellow citizens can t help but turn everything, every moment, and every bit of minutia into a pitched life-or-death battle for the very soul of our country. click to enlarge Last weekend we removed from
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