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Puerto Rico shutters police stations amid COVID-19 curfew

by Associated Press
| April 1, 2020 8:27 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico on Wednesday closed its fifth police station in a week, raising concerns about the U.S. territory's ability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic as officers accused the government of exposing one of the largest police departments in a U.S. jurisdiction to COVID-19.

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