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Gary Peters: “We have heard stories from individuals who live in that 100-mile zone who report being stopped by officers, undergoing…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
We have heard stories from individuals who live in that 100-mile zone who report being stopped by officers, undergoing often humiliating experiences, really expressing consternation that they are Americans living in America and they are being subject to this kind of treatment by their own government.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters highlights concerns of Americans facing humiliating treatment by government authorities.

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