If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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