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Martin Pengelly in Washington

State attorney says DeSantis fired her because she was ‘prosecuting their cops’

Monique Worrell, the ninth judicial circuit state attorney, speaks during a press conference, on 9 August
Monique Worrell, the ninth judicial circuit state attorney, speaks during a press conference, on 9 August after Governor Ron DeSantis suspended her. Photograph: Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/AP

An elected Democratic prosecutor whose removal Ron DeSantis boasted about during the first Republican presidential debate said the hard-right Florida governor and his allies ousted her because she was “prosecuting their cops”.

Law enforcement agencies in central Florida were “all working against me”, Monique Worrell told the Daily Beast, “because I was prosecuting their cops, the ones who used to do things and get away with them”.

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