Kentucky 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/2/2020
Kentucky State Police Quoted Hitler and Encouraged Cadets to be ‘Ruthless’ in a Training Program
The rhetoric in the slide show is consistent with “warrior-style” police training, which teaches officers to dehumanize people to act aggressively and forcefully. It also trains officers to approach every encounter with citizens as having a possibility of becoming dangerous or fatal.
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11/21/19
Going blue in the Bluegrass State? History echoes in Kentucky’s gubernatorial results
by Billy J. Stratton
Not all that long ago, Eastern Kentucky was a Democratic stronghold.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/10/19
The last time Kentucky fought over a gubernatorial election, the governor got killed
The violence in 1899 left Kentucky on the brink of a civil war.
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SOURCE: US News
7/7/2019
Kentucky Historians Explore the Role of Slaves in Kentucky's Bourbon Legacy
In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.
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