title: 10-88! Officer Down!: The story of an officer involved shooting, the politics involved and his survival of the PTSD that resulted from it all.
author: Dustin A Reichert
description: Dustin Reichert spent almost ten years in Law Enforcement. After almost five years with the Anoka County Sheriff's Office he was injured in a violent shooting which led to his medical retirement in 2005. Dustin spent the next 10+ years on a PTSD roller coaster ride. Dustin, now healthy and feeling good, is a hypnosis entertainer and speaker. He travels the country sharing his story and his unique perspective on life, laughter and struggles, and how the power of the positive mind can lead you through a new pathway in life.
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  Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Chicago,
  
  
  1928_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There were only a handful of cops in the area. Just the few who'd been
  
  
  lose enough to hear the gunshots. Officer Michael Gray stood in an alley
  
  
  between two buildings his gun drawn but basically useless, as rival gangs,
  
  
  fired at each over from opposite sides of the street. Toy guns spat fire
  
  
  in the darkness. Windows shattered, and people ran for their lives.
  
  
  A car sped past, only to stop short as its windows exploded and the driver
  
  
  slumped over the wheel.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  That was when he saw the boy. He must have been seven or eight years old,
  
  
  and scared half to death by the noise. He came out of nowhere and ran
  
  
  right into the street—right into the crisscrossing storm of bullets.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Michael reacted on sheer instinct. He ran out of the alley, shov