After Mendez narrowly escaped a brutality charge during his first week on the job, his partner Castellanos took him out for a cup of coffee and a slice of the district's best peach pie.
It'd been a drug dealer, a runner. He was a witness in a murder case, but one of the hookers said he dealt to high school kids. Just hearing it made Mendez breathe in snorts. So once they tracked him down, and he knew they were cops by their walk, and he took off running, Mendez caught him, knocked him to the ground and started whaling. By the time Castellanos caught up and told him to chill the hell out, the dealer was crying. Like the babies he deals to, said Mendez.

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