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Independent Lens | 'Peace Officer'

Mon. May 9 at 9pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 | Explore the effects of our increasingly militarized policing through the eyes of a former sheriff.

Learn about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained Utah’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later.

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