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Despite sparse crowd, grieving mothers still find hope in push for change

Spring, obviously, had sprung Sunday afternoon in a huge way. The greenway strollers and the dog walkers, the leisurely lunch and early-dinner crowd clogged sidewalk tables of downtown eateries. Being that it was a Sunday, the usual day of rest, it was a marvelous thing — especially for merchants and restaurateurs starved to near extinction by COVID. A few hundred yards away, in Winston Square Park amphitheater near a photographic display of the smiling citizenry, something other than pollen was in the air, however. At the urging of activists disgusted by an unchecked spate of violence, three mothers who had lost sons to guns were preparing to speak. They were willing to lend their voices — and share the pain of their most desperate days burying young men that they’d brought into this earth — to try and do something, anything, to move an implacable needle.

Despite sparse crowd, grieving mothers still find hope in push for change in Winston-Salem

Spring, obviously, had sprung Sunday afternoon in a huge way. The greenway strollers and the dog walkers, the leisurely lunch and early-dinner crowd clogged sidewalk tables of downtown eateries. Being that it was a Sunday, the usual day of rest, it was a marvelous thing — especially for merchants and restaurateurs starved to near extinction by COVID. A few hundred yards away, in Winston Square Park amphitheater near a photographic display of the smiling citizenry, something other than pollen was in the air, however. At the urging of activists disgusted by an unchecked spate of violence, three mothers who had lost sons to guns were preparing to speak. They were willing to lend their voices — and share the pain of their most desperate days burying young men that they’d brought into this earth — to try and do something, anything, to move an implacable needle.

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Colorado mass shootings have formed today's police response to them: Officers don't wait

Colorado mass shootings have formed today s police response to them: Officers don t wait By Elise Schmelzer Amid the eulogies and ceremonies, the presiding priest at Boulder police Officer Eric Talley s funeral for a moment directed his comments directly at the hundreds of officers who gathered in the Lafayette church to mourn the officer killed while responding to a report of an active shooter. This service would have been for any one of you if you had been first on the scene, Rev. Daniel Nolan said at the funeral. That is a risk every day you put on your badges. When Talley and two other officers charged into the Boulder King Soopers, they were following modern police strategy on responding to reports of an active shooter. They pulled up to the store, grabbed equipment from their cars and, about a minute after arriving, ran into the building to immediately confront the suspect. They didn t pause to wait for back up or a more heavily-armed SWAT team. They w