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State of Affairs- Call to Love Thy Neighbors

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I haven't written in a while but felt the need to write today. I was on Facebook today and saw a number of posts about the latest police killings. One was of a young man shot several times by a police officer while in the car with his girlfriend and her child. According to the girlfriend the boyfriend, Philando Castille, told the officer that he had a pistol in his pocket and had a license to carry. The police didn't give him a chance to get his license and shot and killed him. The video can be seen here on Facebook,  https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=diamond%20lavish%20reynolds and here on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7h2j0n18jg .   Then another man, Alton Sterling, was killed selling CDs outside a Baton Rouge convenience store by two police officers and it was caught on tape. Mr. Sterling did not have a gun in his hand and was shot at close range. To see the video, go view it on YouTube here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZPCDqymyo .   Thes