when you have communities in this Nation who no longer trust law enforcement... that is a bad place that we are at in this country
America has 5 percent of the globe's population, but 25 percent of the world's imprisoned people.
I would now like to turn my attention, just for a moment, to talk about the problems that affect the Muslim community in particular.
the time for lamentations has passed. The time for legislation is upon us.
we have to get on that trajectory and we have got to find a way to get there
The fact that our low-income and minority communities are over-policed and under-protected is the spark, but poverty and economic deprivatio...
This injustice takes place within a social and economic context.
There has been enough death in this country. There has been enough over-incarceration. It is time now that we make the dream real.
At no time can we have a system of justice in which someone's race or religion or what they are wearing can justify engagement by law enforc...
We have a Nation where African Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but 40 percent of the imprisoned population.
I know growing up our experiences as our parents talked to us about police officers, talked to us about behavior, there was dramatic differe...