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Kavon Frazier tried to block out the memory.

“But it was traumatizing,” says the Dolphins safety, who spent the last four seasons with the Cowboys. “I can still remember everything.”

He can still picture the Carmelo Anthony Oak Hill jersey he was wearing atop red shorts. The police officer pushing him against a wall, wrapping Frazier’s arms around his back, pushing Frazier’s face against the brick wall of Meijer grocery store as the young boy teared up.