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McCleskey v. Kemp ft. Josie Duffy Rice

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What Would Have Happened if George Floyd Had Survived?

After George Floyd was murdered last year by a white police officer in Minneapolis, a former public defender there wrote an op ed titled, consider what would have happened if George Floyd had survived. And it highlights not only the tragedy of George Floyd's death, but really the horror of the whole system that in acts this kind of violence as a matter of routine. This is a racist cycle of violence that is condoned,. It is perpetuated by police, by prosecutors and by the judicial branch. Warren McCluskey went through that system, right? Albeit for a more serious crime for which the law allows much harsher punishment.

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