Eight minutes after the call went out about a gunman opening fire outside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, an officer called into his radio the words that no cop wants to hear: "I've been shot." Hit in the hand, the officer asked for help — he had just arrived at the chaotic scene and didn't know if the gunman was approaching him to finish him off. "I will shoot him if he moves toward you, brother," another officer replied. The gunbattle ultimately claimed the life of one officer and injured a total of five, the highest police casualty count in a single incident in the U.S. in two years and a reflection of the danger that mass shootings pose to police.FILE - In this Friday, Nov....
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