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FILE - A Lexington, Miss., police cruiser is parked outside their facility near the town square, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Mississippi State Rep. Bryant Clark, D-Pickens, asks a question of a committee chairman on the House Chamber floor during debate over a bill at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announces an investigation into the City of Lexington, Miss., and the Lexington Police Department, as U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee looks on, in Jackson, Miss., Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Jill Collen Jefferson, president of JULIAN, a civil rights and international human rights law firm, left, and Bonita Streeter, a bail bondsman and community activist, center, confer with Mitzi Dease Paige, an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Southern District of Mississippi, right, during the Lexington, Miss., stop on the division's civil rights tour, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)