Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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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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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.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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