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Senate passes bill targeting Black St. Louis prosecutor

by Associated Press
| September 4, 2020 12:03 AM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A faction of Republican lawmakers forced a bill through the Senate early Thursday morning that would give the Missouri attorney general power to prosecute St. Louis homicides, a move widely seen as a rebuke of the city's first Black prosecutor.

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