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On the recordApril 16, 2023
If you want to see what happens when you don't prosecute people for throwing bricks through windows, starting fires in downtown, running everybody else out, come to Portland.
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Henry Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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Johnson highlights the consequences of lax prosecution in Portland.

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