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On the recordNovember 16, 2011
You try listening to them, and they make almost no sense. These are people who were living in dirt. These were people who were involved with drugs. There was violence. There was rape.
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Peter King
Republican · New York

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Peter King criticizes the Occupy Wall Street protesters, describing them as disorganized and involved in negative behaviors.

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