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Donald Trump may have made ‘law-and-order’ a centerpiece of his campaign, but as Ankita Rao reports for us, what he says about crime in US cities is often at odds with the reality.
Big American cities are largely run by Democrats, with only few under Republican leadership, making comparisons almost impossible, and the increase in crime has hit Republican areas too.
But Trump’s “law-and-order” narrative is now successfully deepening political fissures in the country, without addressing the actual issue of community violence at time of a pandemic which has cost 200,000 American lives, an economic collapse that has killed millions of jobs and widespread civic unrest.
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Elsewhere in the US, one person was hurt when a vehicle ran into a small crowd of people protesting police brutality in Los Angeles, authorities said.
The driver of a blue pickup truck got into an argument with demonstrators and struck the protester who was standing in the street as the driver tried to get away, police said in a statement. The protester was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
