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Cory Booker: “This legislation for me has to take strides towards saving black lives, to ensuring that we can stop some of the things…”

On the recordApril 22, 2021
This legislation for me has to take strides towards saving black lives, to ensuring that we can stop some of the things that killed Eric Garner, like the chokeholds, or killed Breonna Taylor, like an unjust, in my opinion, no-knock warrant.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Senator Cory Booker outlines the essential goals of the policing reform legislation to prevent future injustices.

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