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On the recordApril 20, 2021
It was today we could for a moment exhale. Exhaled not only for black America but for America.
Said by
Joyce Beatty
Democratic · Ohio
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Beatty reflected on the feeling of relief after the guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial.

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