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NFL player, Dion Dawkins, is a champion for some of Buffalo's most impoverished neighborhoods
Wolf Blitzer shows us how Buffalo Bills lineman Dion Dawkins is a champion on the football field and off. Dawkins' support of the Buffalo community helped ease heartbreak in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at the Tops supermarket and he continues to set an empowering tone across some of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods.
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