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> multiple officers were also BYU alumni

American Fork, UT is literally 10 miles from Brigham Young University, and BYU represents 1/4th of the state's bachelors degrees.

It's a bit like saying police officers in Italy are Catholic. I'd be more surprised if they weren't tbh.

(Disclaimer: I live near that area and also graduated from BYU.)

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Yeah, as a non-Mormon, I agree. I think the Mormon connection is a paranoid distraction. The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across the country.

> The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across the country.

Mormons aren't implicated, but I fail to see how this can explain the behavior of the Oregon police.

I think it's the very odd police behavior that's triggered people trying to understand WTF is going on there.

It would be smart for the Mormon church to get ahead of this because blowback/reputational damage is hitting them. In the least Mormon Police and Mormon business executives appear to be behaving in ways you would not expect from truly religious/moral people.

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