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He Helped Blow Up a Cop, Now He’s Being Celebrated

‘National Freedom Hero’

It was the fifth and final call on a Puerto Rico-born police officer’s first day on patrol when the bomb planted by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN took out his right eye.

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