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Tina Smith: I feel like I think a lot of people on the streets of Brooklyn Center tonight and all across my state, a sense of…

On the recordApril 14, 2021
I feel like I think a lot of people on the streets of Brooklyn Center tonight and all across my state, a sense of exhaustion, grief, and also anger and frustration. I mean, how many times do we have to see a black man die, get killed, be murdered, at the hands of law enforcement? And it keeps happening over and over again.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota
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msnbc.com

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Senator Smith expresses the collective grief and frustration over repeated incidents of police violence against Black men.

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