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Mike Rounds: “For an easement violation you would send an armed officer in a flak jacket?”

On the recordMay 5, 2015
For an easement violation you would send an armed officer in a flak jacket?
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Mike Rounds
Republican · South Dakota

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Rounds questions the appropriateness of armed officers for easement violations.

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