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Steve Cohen: “You can't have absolute independence if the DA has to go to the grand jury and if the DA indicts a policeman, gets a…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
You can't have absolute independence if the DA has to go to the grand jury and if the DA indicts a policeman, gets a policeman indicted, then the police, as we saw in New York--
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen discusses the conflict of interest in local DA's prosecuting police cases.

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