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'Power does what it wants'

That's what Larry Krasner the alleged reformer wrote about cops & public officials who trampled on the First Amendment. But as D.A., Krasner had no problem ordering two detectives to silence me.

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Aug 18, 2023
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“Power does what it wants.”

That’s the lesson that Larry Krasner, the future civil rights lawyer, claimed he learned as a kid while watching on TV the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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