Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
AL SHARPTONWhat I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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