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Some Denver Cops Object to Use of Uniformed Officers in Obama Gun Control Speech Later Today

President campaigning on gun control at the Denver Police Academy

Reason Staff | 4.3.2013 11:48 AM

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Some current and former Denver police officers have taken to Facebook to criticize President Barack Obama's planned use of Denver police officers as a backdrop for a Wednesday speech on gun control.

"This is wrong and it shouldn't be happening," said Mike Rossi, a retired Denver police detective who left the department in 2005.

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