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Heartbreaking Footage: Dateline Follows Police Evicting Families From Their Homes

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      Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen traveled around the country, riding
      along with police who were carrying out evictions, and interviewing the families
      who were being removed from their homes.


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