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Tina Smith: “If any officer is involved in a shooting, they are…”

Featuring: Tina Smith, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Minnesota

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And if anything like what we have seen these ICE agents do had come across my desk, it would have been a four alarm fire. And I can promise you just as standard operating procedure, that If any officer is involved in a shooting, they are immediately put on administrative leave. There is immediately an investigation done. The idea that we would have, as an example, had the police department be the only entity investigating an officer involved shooting, I mean, that never would have happened. (10:50–10:59)

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Asserts that standard procedure involves administrative leave and investigation for officers involved in shootings.

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