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On the recordApril 13, 2021
A famous American said, Joy, once, God did not appoint you to be policeman of the whole world. That was Martin Luther King in 1957.
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Jeh Johnson
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Jeh Johnson references Martin Luther King to discuss U.S. involvement in global policing.

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