For the last two decades, Rasheen Peppers has kept the streets of New Jersey’s largest city safe. He’s a lieutenant in the fugitive unit for the Newark Police Division.

There were days his wife would ask him not to go somewhere -- to stay in and be safe. 

These days, he’s the one who is asking her. 

His wife, Iris Peppers, is a nurse at Holy Name Medical Center -- the hospital at the center of the state’s coronavirus outbreak. 

“I said to my wife, ‘So why don't you just not go and maybe apply for unemployment?’” Rasheen, 47, said. “And she said to me, ‘Listen. I understand. But I have to go. Those nurses need me. They need relief.’”

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