“Cops don’t expect to hear ‘thank you’ very often, particularly from those who need them the most.” But they committed to the rule of law, to public service. “That’s what these five were doing last Thursday, when they were assigned to the peaceful protest” following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philoando Castile. They were upholding the constitutional right of the protestors. Talks about how the police of Dallas happily interacted with the protestors, even taking pictures together, before the shooting began.