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Bill against 'police defunding' advances in Louisiana House

by Associated Press
| October 5, 2020 1:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's municipalities would risk losing state construction dollars if they move to “defund the police," under a measure advanced Monday in the state House, even as the bill sponsor acknowledged no local government around the state is proposing a defunding effort.

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