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.
AL SHARPTONPresident Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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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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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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