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dawn5651

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17. here where i live we don't have a death penalty. but everytime the police come to a

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2026, 01:00 PM

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issue with a indigenous woman the woman ends up dead or if the woman is found dead then the cops brush off any indication that the woman was murdered and that she had just died....we need the same type of movement for indigenous men..just recently where i live a man was murdered in his kitchen by the police. the police say he was a fault. his family says otherwise and this man isn't the first one.

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