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418<p>Judges need to be cautious and make sure that they do not issue Protection Orders unnecessarily because they have many consequences beyond just preventing one person from contacting another.  Issuance of the orders can cause people to lose employment and housing.</p>
419<p>Meanwhile, the effects of the shooting of Officer Mayfield continue to ripple through our community.  One of Q13&#8217;s News morning hosts is <a href="http://q13fox.com/2017/12/18/father-of-q13-news-travis-mayfield-one-of-two-bremerton-police-officers-shot-this-weekend/">Travis Mayfield</a> and it was his father who was shot by McCord.  Travis Mayfield is currently taking time off work to be with his family.</p>
420<p>Officer Mayfield was trying to help McCord get back on track.  It is really a shame he wound up getting shot twice for his trouble.  Hopefully, he will have a quick recovery.</p>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.