INGERSOLL: Look Closely At The Men Standing Behind Zohran Mamdani

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Let’s talk about heroes and zeros today.

Aaron Edwards has a wife and two small children. He also has one of the most dangerous jobs in America. He’s a New York City police officer.

He was just a kid when 9/11 happened.

“I was a college student back in September 2001,” Edwards told the New York Post. “I saw what happened, and I took one of the first tests” afterward for the academy.

“I saw it, I felt it. When everyone was running out [of the Twin Towers], we had our police officers and the other first-responders running in. I thought that was selfless heroism. It just drew me to the profession,” Edwards said. “Since I started, I fell in love with policing.”

In 20 years of policing since, Edwards had done just about everything. He’d walked a beat. He policed........

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