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Michigan lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation to address police accountability

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Michigan lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation to address police accountability

Michigan lawmakers introduce bipartisan legislation to address police accountability

In the year since the killing of George Floyd Michigan lawmakers have worked on a package of bills to address police accountability.

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Among other thinare still very much remembthe images um from Georgeand you know, with the oneof his death, uh, we wantewe are pushing forward somget at improving police actransparency.

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Honestly, I thinka lot of other states havemany of the things that weUm, and so we need to makeum, you know, really takinyou know, what can we do badmit these bills won't sobut we'll make a significaadvocacy groups are not co




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