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Ted Cruz: “The D.C. city Council passed a soft on crime package of…”

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That means people are alive because the National Guard is there stopping murders. But they're not. They're furious. And I'll tell you, in the wake of George Floyd dying. Yeah. The D.C. city Council passed a soft on crime package of legislation that lessened the penalty for violent crime across the board. That tied the police hands and made it much, much harder to prosecute crime. And the result was crime rose dramatically. Carjacking and violent crime rose dramatically. (22:51–23:01)

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Asserts that the D.C. city Council passed legislation reducing penalties for violent crimes.

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