This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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.
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.
The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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![Al Sharpton Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/let-me-just-say-that-we-are-under-the-consent-decr-683x1024.jpg)
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