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Second prosecutor resigns from Trump's police commission

Posted on AllSides November 19th, 2020
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A second local prosecutor on Thursday asked the U.S. Justice Department to have his name removed from a controversial report on policing reforms, saying he feared it would fail to address systemic racism in the criminal justice system.

Mark Dupree, the district attorney in Wyandotte County, Kansas, told U.S. Attorney General William Barr in a letter seen by Reuters he felt the work of the department’s special law enforcement commission had been “smothered by a pernicious political agenda.”

The commission started working before the May killing of George Floyd in...

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-policing/second-prosecutor-resigns-from-trumps-police-commission-idUSKBN27Z2S4

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