“You want to go fight in combat and sit in a foxhole? You go right ahead, but a man can’t hit you in public here? Bullshit! You act like a ho, you get treated like one!”

– APD Officer Andrew Pietrowski to KUT reporter Joy Diaz. Pietrowski resigned from APD Friday, Dec. 12.

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