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October 29, 2020

Virginia to Curb Militarized Police Departments, Ban No-Knock Raids
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed several police reform bills
limiting the militarization of police departments and banning the use of
no-knock warrants - joining Florida and Oregon as the third state to bar
unannounced raids by police. Virginia House Bill 5099 was nicknamed
"Breonna's Law" after Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman shot
to death in her own home last March by Louisville, Kentucky, police
officers serving a no-knock warrant.


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