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Brad Lander: “Starting late last May and into June, people started getting…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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April 8 Live with Brad Lander

Published | Video Starts at 02:56

You don't go after people in the halls of the courtrooms, or why would anyone show up in court trusting justice and just like one more depredation. So I went down there for the first time because Starting late last May and into June, people started getting arrested for the first times any of us had seen in courtrooms. The first one I ever saw was Dylan Contreras, that Bronx high school student who finally got out nine months later. (02:56–03:00)

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Asserts that arrests in courtrooms began occurring for the first time in late May into June.

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