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Richard Blumenthal: “I find it unfortunate and embarrassing, as a law enforcement official, that there is not any Federal legislation that…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
I find it unfortunate and embarrassing, as a law enforcement official, that there is not any Federal legislation that requires that cities... are not reporting those types of shootings and deaths to a Federal authority.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal criticizes the lack of federal legislation on reporting police-related shootings.

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