Black lawmakers cite racism as Missouri House OKs crime bill
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
Many Black lawmakers denounced the majority-white, Republican-led Legislature for voting to take power away from local leaders.
A House bill aims to allow the governor to appoint a prosecutor to take over prosecuting violent crime cases in the City of St. Louis.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Racial tensions in Mississippi echoed in Missouri Thursday, as Black Democratic lawmakers accused the state's Republican House leadership of racism for shutting down a Black lawmaker's speech and passing a bill that could strip power from the Black woman elected as prosecutor in St.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Racial tensions in Mississippi echoed in Missouri Thursday, as Black Democratic lawmakers accused the state's Republican House