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Terry Newman: Imagine a world where police officers aren't slain

Five thousand officers take part in procession honouring Montreal shooting victim Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane

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MONTREAL — As thousands gathered yesterday morning to pay their respects to Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, the officer slain in last month’s shocking shooting in downtown Montreal, a police choir sang a rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

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“Imagine all the people, livin’ life in peace” — a lovely, but sadly unrealistic sentiment these days around the world, especially with individuals in our society willing to engage in violence in service of ideological, political and economic revolutions.

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Yet in Montreal yesterday, in the celebration of Benredouane’s life as a husband, father, brother and police officer by those who........

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