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One amputee cop to another: You're not crippled

If New York Police Officer Eric Grimes had any doubts that losing his leg will keep him from returning to the job he loves, Officer Rachid Elkadi quickly disavowed him of that notion. "You're not crippled," Elkadi said he told Grimes in an emotional hospital meeting, a few hours after Grimes was badly hurt in a freak accident Tuesday afternoon in Brooklyn. "You're not handicapped. If you are, you...

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