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On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
If we just take my district, since I have been in Congress, I have lost five officers who were overpowered by perpetrators because they were better-armed than my police officers.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler discusses the dangers faced by police officers due to better-armed perpetrators.

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