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Meet an 8-year-old hero who fights crime, even as he's fighting cancer

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On Aug. 21 the Boise Police Department swore in 8-year-old Rashid as an officer for a day, fulfilling the boy's dream to join the police force. Rashid has been battling a rare form of cancer diagnosed after his family escaped violence in Iraq to start a new life in Boise.

Rashid was only two years old when he left Baghdad, Iraq, for Boise, Idaho. The boy and his family, resettled in the United States by the International Rescue Committee, were finally beginning to enjoy the stability and opportunities of their new home when fate intervened once more—Rashid, now eight years old, was diagnosed with a rare form of sarcoma known as Rhabdomyosarcoma, or RMS. 

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