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We Won’t Stop We Won’t Be Silent - Milwaukee Community Journal

Heartbreaking, to say the least, is what these police crimes have been. Between Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor and the hundreds and thousands of others, this treatment is not right. Why is it that the police aren’t treated as criminals when they are indeed just that. Why does a blue uniform save them every time? […]

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