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Amy-Strange

(854 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2020, 04:30 PM Jun 2020

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Joe Kennedy to introduce bill to make it easier to charge police with civil rights violations

Representatives Joseph P. Kennedy III and Hakeem Jeffries on Monday will introduce a bill to make it easier for police to be charged with civil rights violations by changing just one word in the federal code.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-kennedy-to-introduce-bill-to-make-it-easier-to-charge-police-with-civil-rights-violations/ar-BB15cF4H?ocid=spartandhp
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Joe Kennedy to introduce bill to make it easier to charge police with civil rights violations (Original Post) Amy-Strange Jun 2020 OP

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1. A charge is one thing, the convinction another. Does this change remove the quasi or full immunity