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Ilhan Omar: “People forget that brutality is oftentimes legalized.”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Rep. ILHAN OMAR Talks Terror In Minneapolis And Becoming American

Published | Video Starts at 58:11

I mean, it's always the challenge, right, because you can think about what you would do, but then you've got the constraints of what the legal system that you're living under. People forget that brutality is oftentimes legalized. And when people say, you know, why didn't you do this? Or why didn't these people do that? (58:11–58:17)

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Asserts that legal systems can legitimize brutality.

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