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Anti-'police defunding' bill falls short in Louisiana Senate

| October 23, 2020 1:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bid to give Louisiana lawmakers more power to penalize municipalities that too steeply cut their police departments stalled Friday in the Senate during the last minutes of the special session.

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