July 20, 2022 by V Leigh

Police are on track to kill more people this year than last year. Last year police killed 1,139 people, one of the worst years on record. This AFTER police said they “enacted reforms” and “reimagined public safety” following the murder of George Floyd.

‘Are the police capable of changing?’: Data on racial profiling in California shows the problem is only getting worse

The disparity between number of Black people stopped by police relative to white people has grown in recent yearshttps://t.co/2cbNI7TvKT w/ @susieneilson
— Dustin Gardiner (@dustingardiner) July 14, 2022

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“The whole experience has been traumatic. It’s affected myself, my family, a whole realm of things.” Handcuffed Black man attacked by K-9 sues police https://t.co/TiukcZcZcX https://t.co/rs0inG2rND #RolandMartinUnfiltered #BlackStarNetwork pic.twitter.com/w52j9tgTUT
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) July 13, 2022

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“This Police Department Used Images of Black Men Holding Guns as Target Practice” by @VICENews https://t.co/8YPbH0VWVe
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) July 4, 2022

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It just never ends. #JadaJohnson #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/LapHnNVenZ
— Colleen •WearAMask• Barry 🇺🇦🌻 (@Cbeary1608) July 6, 2022

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I cannot find the words to really encapsulate how insane, terrifying, and outrageous it is that police could shoot someone 60 times, SIXTY TIMES, over a traffic stop, then the government response is to send out militarized police to beat and arrest anyone who says it was wrong https://t.co/xkUWKTXqX7
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) July 4, 2022

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LAPD officer was beaten to death by fellow officers during a training that simulated a mob attack, a wrongful death claim filed by his mother claims.
Houston Tipping, 32, died 3 days after an on-duty accident at the department’s Elysian Park Academy. https://t.co/3o3Z1zXwZ0
— •sad•girl•cassi• (@sadgirlcassi) June 27, 2022

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🗣️Justice for Jayland Walker.

The system will continue taking lives through police violence until we overhaul it entirely. #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/6R6AqyZ6I9
— ACLU of Ohio (@acluohio) July 9, 2022

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Here’s the #Akron police committing incredible police violence against a protester.

Where is the national #BLM protests that happened when trump was president? Did white people just decide the violence was over when Biden was elected? @Blklivesmatter? https://t.co/hVyC7QgguU
— Zach D Roberts – Photojournalist for hire (@zdroberts) July 7, 2022

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Police are on track to kill more people this year than last year. Last year police killed 1,139 people, one of the worst years on record. This AFTER police said they “enacted reforms” and “reimagined public safety” following the murder of George Floyd. https://t.co/0VQVssyYOK
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) July 3, 2022

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July 11, 2022 by V Leigh

7 years ago, police transported Freddie Gray in a van without securing him, leading to his death. This month, Randy Cox was injured in a similar way. “I can’t move,” he said. Officers ridiculed him and dragged him into a cell. #RandyCox is now paralyzed from the chest down.

7 years ago, police transported Freddie Gray in a van without securing him, leading to his death.

This month, Randy Cox was injured in a similar way. “I can’t move,” he said. Officers ridiculed him and dragged him into a cell. Randy is now paralyzed from the chest down. pic.twitter.com/NVq3bus5tI
— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) July 1, 2022

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Here’s the clip of incident for people who didn’t see it!pic.twitter.com/qhx8mgzAn0
— I’ᗰ Oᑎ TᕼᗩT ᑎEᗯ ᐯIᗷᖇᗩTIOᑎ 💋♀️| BREAK MY SOUL (@nocontextcarmel) July 2, 2022

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Randy Cox hit “headfirst into the back of a police van after it came to a sudden halt.” No seatbelts restrain him. The impact broke his spine and paralyzed him. “After he was injured, the officers mocked Mr. Cox for being unable to sit up, a video shows.”https://t.co/abrht5ituL
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) July 8, 2022

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Randy Cox was handcuffed in the back of a police van with no seatbelt when the driver stopped suddenly, knocking him down and paralyzing him.

Freddie Gray died like this in Baltimore

And similar to George Floyd, police mocked and ignored Cox’s injuries. https://t.co/VLyuZ19Fgo
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 29, 2022

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What will it take for law enforcement to believe marginalized POC when they say they’re in distress?! New Haven (CT) police officers not only ignored Randy Cox’s pleas for help but even MOCKED him as he suffered from life-threatening injuries! #JusticeForRandyCox pic.twitter.com/J6gGkO1oQh
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) July 2, 2022

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June 11, 2022 by V Leigh

Three police have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned.

“Three police have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned.” As the man’s wife screamed for them to help, they threatened her: “If you don’t calm down, I’m going to put you in my car.” Uvalde is not an anomaly. https://t.co/VvVwpOUa2m
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) June 5, 2022

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She said she took the interview in the fields where she is a farm worker so that people could see how hard she works. She also evacuated her child’s class by giving them the okay to leave, saving lives. We keep each other safe. https://t.co/kUZBBovdb1
— muna (@Muna_Mire) June 4, 2022

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The Uvalde CISD Police Chief says he didn’t know he was in charge and ditched his police radios on purpose seconds after arriving at Robb Elementary.https://t.co/cgntABLW0w
— Chron (@chron) June 10, 2022

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BREAKING: Cop who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head charged with second-degree murder.https://t.co/shhZinONaJ
— VICE News (@VICENews) June 9, 2022

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June 3, 2022 by V Leigh

“We are Black people. We are at risk and death is at our heels. #policebrutality #allblacklivesmatter

“We are Black people. We are at risk and death is at our heels.”

Police killed a Black man with mental illness by gassing him to death. Now Black activists and community members are demanding justice across several Brazilian cities. pic.twitter.com/uOh9LfyYxq
— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 30, 2022

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Kansas City Police Department shot an unarmed Black woman 5 times. Eyewitnesses say the woman had her hands up.

The police handcuffed her while she was bleeding out on the pavement.

The woman has been identified as 26-year-old Leonna Hale. https://t.co/MN336xAZXo
— The Kansas City Defender (@KCDefender) May 29, 2022

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May 28, 2022 by V Leigh

Has anyone seen all the breathless news coverage of the epidemic of NYPD officers arrested so far this year? No? Hmm? I wonder why there is so little coverage of the many cases below?

If the police can’t get their story straight two days after a tragic mass murder that’s drawn international news coverage, that should teach us to be more skeptical of official police reports in many other cases when the world isn’t watching.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 27, 2022

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Just a few bad apples. https://t.co/jq5hWnhmI5
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 12, 2022

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If I had to pick one thing journalists miss in police reporting, it’s that cops have tried to surveil, infiltrate, and violently crush every major social, economic, labor, environmental, and racial justice movement since 1900. It’s what they spent their budgets on in every city.
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) May 23, 2022

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The missing context is that 444 of these were covid deaths. pic.twitter.com/Jgiz3Wuuql
— Read Wobblies and Zapatistas (@JoshuaPotash) May 22, 2022

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Has anyone seen all the breathless news coverage of the epidemic of NYPD officers arrested so far this year? No? Hmm? I wonder why there is so little coverage of the many cases below?
— Alex Vitale (@avitale) May 24, 2022

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May 1, 2022 by V Leigh

Here in “Liberal” Cali Stockton Police killed a 54 year old African American Grandmother who had back into a Patrol car. She was shot 30 times after the office chased her car down and blocked her in!

“Abolition can’t happen overnight.”

Uhhh, if we simply decriminalized drugs & took cops off traffic enforcement we would have a drastically different world — overnight.

77% of LAPD-initiated stops use a SUSPECTED traffic violation as the excuse to stop people.
— AL For LA (Albert Corado) (@ALforLA2022) April 27, 2022

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Also? Cops make more arrests for drug possession than for any other crime in the US.

We CAN do a lot overnight through abolitionist strategy. We can finally fucking end the war on drugs AND we can make sure no one else gets killed during a traffic stop.

Let’s do it.
— AL For LA (Albert Corado) (@ALforLA2022) April 27, 2022

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My name is Albert Corado and I’m running for City Council in LA CD 13 representing Historic Filipinotown to Hollywood and more.

I was thrust into social justice organizing after the @lapdhq killed my little sister, #MelyCorado at the Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake. pic.twitter.com/gxFtSGSWOX
— AL For LA (Albert Corado) (@ALforLA2022) April 30, 2021

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Today, @mnhumanrights found a deliberate “pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act” by the Minneapolis Police Department

Below are just a few of the most egregious findings.https://t.co/T8YGGPmcfQ
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 27, 2022

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Two years after George Floyd’s murder, we have yet to see meaningful change from the Minneapolis Police Department.

I have to ask: what will it take?
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 27, 2022

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Nationally, but especially in Mississippi, corporal punishment is disproportionately administered to Black students. Black youth in Mississippi are 50% more likely to be corporally punished than white kids.

Sign this petition to #EndCorporalPunishment https://t.co/xEslsA3oG5
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) April 28, 2022

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Police kill Black people at higher rates than white people per population in 48 of the 50 largest US cities. Minneapolis police kill Black people at 22x higher rate than whites – one of the worst disparities in the nation. https://t.co/G3YiCYZoEi https://t.co/9gWhP96Xyl pic.twitter.com/vJVzYMXg9g
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 27, 2022

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“Police stopped Philando Castile 46 times and issued him over 85 violations, almost exclusively for non-moving offenses. Though half the violations were dismissed, the remaining violations cost Mr. Castile over $6,000. Police shot and killed him during the 47th stop.” (cont.)
— Adam Bojak (@AdamBojak) April 21, 2022

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Here in “Liberal” Cali Stockton Police killed a 54 year old African American Grandmother who had back into a Patrol car. She was shot 30 times after the office chased her car down and blocked her in! https://t.co/rvrLcwbf32
— Anita Wills (@bwdn2008) April 26, 2022

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April 7, 2022 by V Leigh

‘No progress’ since George Floyd: US police killing three people a day

Cops Shot A Black Man Who Disarmed A Gunman https://t.co/ZQCQIXGAXR via @YouTube
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) April 6, 2022

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On Friday, Pittsfield MA police killed Miguel Estrella, a 22 year-old having a mental health crisis. Miguel needed help & got murdered.

Please consider donating to the family. I have met them & this is a legit fund. DM if you wanna get more involved. https://t.co/QN7WyoXEht
— Aly W Corey (@AlyCorey) March 29, 2022

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Impunity is a feature of societal decay & democratic erosion. And there are many horrifying entries this week. But pls don’t forget this one. The top law enforcement ofcr for SD ran over a man, left the scene, lied about it & has faced no accountability. https://t.co/yasWOyNlpJ
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) March 30, 2022

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Civilian panel on violent arrest: ‘Stunned, shocked, even disgusted’ https://t.co/KEfvHBN3Sf
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) March 17, 2022

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#California man, #EdwardBronstein, 38, died screaming ‘I can’t breathe’ as #police restrained him, two year old video shows; Bronstein died less than two months before #GeorgeFloyd was killed by police – https://t.co/y0a5MhIce3
— #FreePamMoses (@DcSlumdog) March 18, 2022

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8 year ago today Alex Nieto was murdered by SFPD while taking a work break in his neighborhood park. We will never forgive the gentrifier that called the cops on him for wearing ‘gang colors’ (49ers jacket) & the cops who fired 59 shots at him. Alex Nieto always in our hearts. ❤️
— AntiDisplacementCoup (@AsterZephyrIsis) March 21, 2022

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‘No progress’ since George Floyd: US police killing three people a day https://t.co/AJCvA1LouI
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) March 30, 2022

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February 7, 2022 by V Leigh

Today is a good reminder that the police, who supposedly “serve and protect,” killed 978 people in 2021.

3 Cops Charged In Death Of 8 Year Old Girl https://t.co/l3y3g71EAJ via @YouTube
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) January 19, 2022

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“We are outraged at the senseless killing of Amir Locke, which was both egregious & avoidable, & stand with his family as they call for accountability in his name. We demand an immediate, rigorous, transparent, & comprehensive investigation.” – @JNelsonLDF https://t.co/zud6J14iB9
— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) February 5, 2022

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As #BreonnaTaylor showed us, no-knock warrants have deadly consequences for innocent law-abiding Black people! @MinneapolisPD executed a no-knock warrant yesterday at 6:48am, killing Amir Locke while he was wrapped in a blanket on the couch. Now we demand #JusticeForAmirLocke!! pic.twitter.com/FLKqR0eszP
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) February 4, 2022

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2020: Breonna Taylor was murdered by police during a no-knock warrant.

2022: Amir Locke was murdered by police during a no-knock warrant.

In the two years in between? The Senate didn’t even bring the bill to ban no-knock warrants to a vote.

The whole system is guilty.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) February 4, 2022

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Today is a good reminder that the police, who supposedly “serve and protect,” killed 978 people in 2021.

978 people. #JusticeForAmirLocke
— Brave New Films (@bravenewfilms) February 4, 2022

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January 16, 2022 by V Leigh

Troubling. “It’s not clear how common it is for police officers to fatally shoot multiple people during their careers. No database keeps track.”

He didn’t just “die,” @washingtonpost. Guards at a Kansas juvenile caging facility killed a 17 y/o named Cedric. Shackled his ankles. Back-cuffed his wrists. Rolled him on his chest. Same maneuver used to kill George Floyd. Authorities tried to cover it up.https://t.co/HujkurTOmh
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) December 30, 2021

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Police have killed 1,051 people this year. https://t.co/vqURbJZyIR
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) December 25, 2021

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Murdered by police like the way George Floyd was murdered https://t.co/AFisrz35fa
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) December 30, 2021

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‘Devastating’: Coroner identifies 14-year-old girl killed by #LosAngeles police in Burlington store – https://t.co/TiLvFNMe30
— DcSlumDog (@DcSlumdog) December 25, 2021

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Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, came to the U.S. from Chile with her mother, Soledad Peralta, about six months ago to visit her older sister.

On Thursday, her life was cut short when an LAPD officer shot her inside a Burlington clothing store.https://t.co/9r1E5IPIfj pic.twitter.com/nE9scRXQ3E
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 28, 2021

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You can feel the unimaginable pain of Valentina’s mother. This didn’t have to happen. https://t.co/pGGlI96O4O
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) December 29, 2021

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The @SFPD nearly beat this man, Sergio Lugo, to death. One officer admitted to punching him 25 times in the face.

Witnesses saw it all. Sergio committed no crime to even be stopped by police.

Police charged the man with hurting THEIR FISTS. @chesaboudin dropped the charges. https://t.co/d3pMeWlsti pic.twitter.com/sFsgScabKm
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 13, 2022

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Troubling. “It’s not clear how common it is for police officers to fatally shoot multiple people during their careers. No database keeps track.” https://t.co/7ASkgLg0Sf
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) December 30, 2021

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December 19, 2021 by V Leigh

Police don’t prevent crime. They respond to it. Higher wages, guaranteed health care, food security, high quality child care, housing, good schools, and addiction treatment prevent crime.

Killer Cop CAUGHT Trying To HIDE THE BODY https://t.co/aXwGnwoS8b via @YouTube
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) December 3, 2021

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With opening statements of Kim Potter’s trial beginning this week, let us all remember how this 26-year police veteran recklessly killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop! She needs to be held accountable for his death! #JusticeForDaunteWright pic.twitter.com/S0sdfAaMz3
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) December 7, 2021

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Black Undercover Officer Beaten By White Cops https://t.co/K93DUJW20i via @YouTube
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) December 4, 2021

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New video of ex-cop fatally shooting Daunte Wright shown in court l GMA https://t.co/FAy3IAEOUK via @YouTube
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) December 9, 2021

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A Crooked Cop Faces Justice For Evil Crimes https://t.co/fBEPYD7SoJ via @YouTube
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) December 9, 2021

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Police don’t prevent crime. They respond to it. Higher wages, guaranteed health care, food security, high quality child care, housing, good schools, and addiction treatment prevent crime.
— Brave New Films (@bravenewfilms) December 15, 2021

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Police are on track to kill more people this year than last year. Last year police killed 1,139 people, one of the worst years on record. This AFTER police said they “enacted reforms” and “reimagined public safety” following the murder of George Floyd.

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7 years ago, police transported Freddie Gray in a van without securing him, leading to his death. This month, Randy Cox was injured in a similar way. “I can’t move,” he said. Officers ridiculed him and dragged him into a cell. #RandyCox is now paralyzed from the chest down.

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Three police have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned.

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“We are Black people. We are at risk and death is at our heels. #policebrutality #allblacklivesmatter

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Has anyone seen all the breathless news coverage of the epidemic of NYPD officers arrested so far this year? No? Hmm? I wonder why there is so little coverage of the many cases below?

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Here in “Liberal” Cali Stockton Police killed a 54 year old African American Grandmother who had back into a Patrol car. She was shot 30 times after the office chased her car down and blocked her in!

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‘No progress’ since George Floyd: US police killing three people a day

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