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Pence aide: NBA protests over Kenosha are 'absurd and silly'

by Associated Press
| August 27, 2020 10:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff said Thursday that NBA protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are “absurd and silly" when compared with the league's relative silence about human rights violations in China, where U.S. pro basketball has a large audience.

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