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Summer Lee: there was a person, a politician, that referred to my son as being collateral damage

On the recordMarch 25, 2021
there was a person, a politician, that referred to my son as being collateral damage
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of a politician's insensitivity regarding her son's murder in the context of bail reform.

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