Kenosha Mother Goes Off-Script In Heartbreaking Plea To Biden

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Kenosha Mother Goes Off-Script In Heartbreaking Plea To Biden

Porche Bennet said she was supposed to read a list of demands from her organization, Black Lives Activists Kenosha, but she spoke from her heart instead.

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