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TIL a fire department dispatcher in told a caller to 'Deal with it yourself' while she was helping a young boy who was wounded from a drive-by shooting. The boy died and the dispatcher Matthew Sanchez was eventually fired, but won a lawsuit saying he was fired unfairly and won $25,000 as a result.

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