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“You hear it all the time,” he says, just after a black teen he questions outside a convenience store in the midst of a school day storms off with a cutting remark accusing the police lieutenant of harassing his own kind.

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Lt. McGarner lets it go with no apologies.

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At the end of the day we all bleed the same,” McGarner tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. “We’re all children of God.”
“I pray to God we’re going to get better,” he says.

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People showed McGarner with a patch that had the letters "HMFIC" - an acronym commonly associated with the phrase "Head mother f---- in charge." WLS questioned the patch on the uniform of a police officer following national conversations about the militarization of officers in the wake of officer-involved shootings.

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A Baton Rouge Police spokesperson said the letters, while easily associated with the expletive, suggested the letters meant "Head Military Figure in Charge" and paid homage to McGarner's time spent in the US Army.

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After questions about the patch, police said they advised McGarner "to remove that patch from his departmental issued vest so there is no confusion in the future."

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