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On the recordDecember 10, 2019
So, there is a pattern of reporting about race-based cases and there is a separate pattern of reporting of retaliation against whistleblowing. Is that correcting?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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Ocasio-Cortez questions the existence of patterns in reports of race-based cases and whistleblower retaliation.

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