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Cory Booker: “But you know how some of these opinions using this type of racially coded language can further the disparate treatment…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
But you know how some of these opinions using this type of racially coded language can further the disparate treatment of people of color with the police.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker warns that racially coded language in legal opinions can worsen police treatment of minorities.

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