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Expert: Minority Rights in Jeopardy Absent Consent Decrees for Police

Amid concerns that the U.S. Department of Justice won’t pursue consent decrees to hold police departments accountable for use of excessive or deadly force, a law professor who negotiated consent decrees under President Obama said the rights of minorities are at stake.

March 9, 2017

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Black Scholars Take Issue with Obama on Police Encounters

President Obama suggested that Hillary Clinton is the best candidate in the 2016 presidential race because she knows “the worry Black parents feel when their son leaves the house isn’t so different than what a brave cop’s family feels when he puts on the blue and goes to work.”

July 28, 2016