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December 13, 2021

Former New Orleans Police Monitor Elected as Louisiana's First Black Woman Sheriff
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Voters in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, have elected a new sheriff.
First-time candidate Susan Hutson beat 17-year incumbent Marlin Gusman
in a runoff election Saturday to become the first Black woman ever
elected as a sheriff in Louisiana. Hutson is a former prosecutor; she
spent a decade as New Orleans's independent police monitor, a position
established in a 2008 voter referendum aimed at rooting out corruption,
racism and brutality in the New Orleans Police Department.


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