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Elijah Cummings: “And the fact is that in Baltimore, a person could be standing at a bus stop. There could be 20 people, somebody could…”

On the recordMay 14, 2009
And the fact is that in Baltimore, a person could be standing at a bus stop. There could be 20 people, somebody could come up, kill that -- kill one of the people. Everybody knows who did it. And nobody will tell. Nobody.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings discusses the pervasive fear of witness intimidation in Baltimore.

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