“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver outlines why “we need to find out who our district attorneys are and get a sense of the policies and priorities that they’re carrying out where we live.” Watch his clip on the power of prosecutors in the video player above.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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