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PUBLISHED 5/30/08 ---- We get another sobering reminder this morning about the nature of the job of a law enforcement officer. When friends, family and colleagues pay tribute to Kern County Sheriff’s Deputy James Throne at Canyon Hills Assembly of God Church and lay him to rest at Hillcrest Memorial Park, we will get another glimpse of the inherent dangers of wearing a badge. And another glimpse of this truth: that the men and women who wear those badges are both courageous and fallible humans. Throne, a 29-year-old father of three who would have been on the force for 21⁄2 years and once worked for the Taft Police Department, was killed Memorial Day weekend when his patrol car collided with another sheriff’s patrol car responding to the same call north of Lamont the night of May 23. Throne collided with 30-year-old Deputy Doug Swanson of Bakersfield, who suffered a broken arm, leg and pelvis plus a cracked vertebra. He is expected to survive. The patrol...
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