Detective Rick Lee has been nicknamed the Hipster Cop online in tongue-in-cheek blog posts due to his more-fashionable-than-your-average-officer look, replete with cardigans, skinny ties, professorial-style glasses and side-swept hair.
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Lee, 45, said people have a perception of police officers as old and staid and “then they meet me, they’re like, ‘Oh, he’s cool.'”…
He said that as a community affairs officer, his role is to try to work as a bridge between the protesters and the police, to balance the protesters’ right to demonstrate and police attempts to maintain order.
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