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Jerry Demings: “If you want to talk about your officers and your deputies, you have to talk about sovereign citizens that have killed…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
If you want to talk about your officers and your deputies, you have to talk about sovereign citizens that have killed more police officers than anybody else.
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Jerry Demings
Florida

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Demings emphasizes the threat posed by sovereign citizens to law enforcement.

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