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On the recordMay 17, 2023
When the FBI is rifling through personal correspondence of people of color, when law enforcement tries to push policies to limit the freedom of people practicing a different religion, or unjustly pursuing people in cars who look like Philando Castile or my children or who are just going about their business or breaking down the doors of people's homes like Breonna Taylor, do you think my Republican colleagues care about that? They don't bat an eye.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen highlights racial and religious injustices ignored by Republicans.

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