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.
AL SHARPTONThere 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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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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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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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