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  • The Team Roping Journal

    PAY IT FORWARD

    Apr 15, 2022 4 minutes
    —G.R. Schiavino

    In 2014, Police Sgt. Greg Ziel experienced three outbursts that he couldn’t ignore.

    “They were anger outbursts, and rage,” admitted Ziel, who is now retired from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. “One was on the job. One was to my teenaged boy. And one was to a bank teller. Those three things all happened within a two-week period and I realized that there was something I didn’t have control of.”

    What Ziel—a 22-year veteran of the department—didn’t yet know was that, for 15 years, he had been experiencing increasingly telling symptoms of PTSD caused by his involvement in a 1999 officer-involved shooting. From the start, he leaned

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