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Bill Lawson offers a harrowing first-person account of his arrest earlier this week while covering a residential house fire for…

Bill Lawson offers a harrowing first-person account of his arrest earlier this week while covering a residential house fire for the Maumelle [Ark.] Monitor. In it, Lawson complains of being roughed up by a state trooper and describes his experience as “abusive” and “downright scary.” 

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