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DHS cut funding to mass shooting prevention programs in Minnesota before shooting
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6:45Now PlayingThe month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence.
The grants were ended as part of $18.5 million in cuts to a Homeland Security program that the Trump administration decried as partisan and unsuccessful — but which some experts and lawmakers say bolsters work to spot early warning signs of mass shooters like Robin Westman, who died of self-inflicted wounds after killing two children and wounding 18 others at a Catholic Mass on Wednesday.
CNN's Victor Blackwell speaks with former Minnesota Senate minority leader Melisa López Franzen. #cnn #News
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