Djuana Franklin collapsed onto her hands and knees in front of the Dallas Police Headquarters, sobbing uncontrollably.
She pressed her hands into the pavement, inches from the police cars turned memorial for the five officers killed in Dallas. The 44-year-old black woman wept for several minutes on the ground as others who came to pay their respects put their hands on her back.
The group, of differing races, helped Franklin off the ground as she composed herself."I will miss the love that I had from the officers and the public servants [who] did save me when I was raped," she says, tears streaming down her face.
Franklin says the Dallas police are the epitome of community policing and that she is the living proof. They took her to the hospital after an alleged rape several years ago. They helped her when she was homeless and needed food.
"[They] took me where I could be safe after I'd been through that trauma," Frankin says.
[excerpted]http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/us/dallas-memorial-homeless-woman/index.html
