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Abdul El-Sayed: “The last thing we have to remember is that jails and policing in America are like the ‘duct tape’ that people bring out…”

On the recordJuly 3, 2026
The last thing we have to remember is that jails and policing in America are like the ‘duct tape’ that people bring out to fix all the other broken systems
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Abdul El-Sayed
Democratic · Michigan

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Concluding remarks on policing and incarceration.

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