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Stacey Abrams: “You start to encourage and incentivize private violence.”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Published | Video Starts at 04:11

You go after colleges and universities that can teach people possibly what else they should know. You get to step nine, and you start to private. You start to encourage and incentivize private violence. You send the US Marines into spaces they should not be. You send the National Guard in. (04:11–04:14)

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Asserts that promoting private violence is a tactic used in the transition to autocracy.

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