Del Aguila and Tapia focused their cameras forward, as Flores weaved between lanes, repeating the patrol car's every movement.
Until then, no reporters had met the other members of the group, and after repeated cancellations to go on patrol, I'd started to wonder if they really existed.
Hours earlier, at a rally in New York, Cruz repeated his controversial proposal to "secure and patrol" Muslim neighborhoods despite facing widespread and swift criticism for his knee-jerk reaction to the terror attacks in Brussels.
Despite the president's repeated fulminations, three carrier groups on patrol, a visit to Pyongyang by a Chinese envoy, and Secretary Tillerson's expressions of pacific intent, the North is continuing to rush its missile and nuclear development.
The president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, which represents patrol officers, did not return repeated calls for comment Friday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said such patrols seriously harmed China's security, and repeated a demand they stop.
Later, he said, an Iranian patrol vessel approached the Tempest head-on despite repeated radio, flare and loudspeaker warnings.
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The first ships produced by the Deepwater program — eight 123-foot patrol boats — were pulled from service late last year, after they suffered repeated hull cracks, mechanical problems and similar flaws in their electronics networks.
The repeated aid efforts come as Iran has aimed belligerent warnings at the Navy's Fifth Fleet, which has patrolled the Persian Gulf and its vital international oil-shipping passages for decades.
