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Officials denounce a recent wave of anti-Asian violence after a mass shooting in Atlanta.
Officials denounce the recent wave of anti-Asian violence and offer messages of support in the wake of a mass shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead. Our politics team of Amanda Vinicky, Heather Cherone and Paris Schutz discusses this story and more in this week’s roundtable.
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Spotlight Politics: Lightfoot Calls Shooting a Hate Crime
Clip: 3/17/2021 | 12m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Officials denounce the recent wave of anti-Asian violence and offer messages of support in the wake of a mass shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead. Our politics team of Amanda Vinicky, Heather Cherone and Paris Schutz discusses this story and more in this week’s roundtable.
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