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Irvo Otieno had an illness. Irvo Otieno should have been doctored to, not treated with brutality.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
What kind of sickness would make men pile on a man that’s already handcuffed and shackled ?
Found on CNN 8 months ago
In the city that Martin Luther King Jr. lost Tyre Nichols life … you beat a brother to death.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
Why do we want to see the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed ? Because then Pool Harris have to think twice before Pool Harris beat Tyre Nichols. Pool Harris think twice before Pool Harris shoot at someone unarmed.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
There’s nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us that fight to open doors, that you walked through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through them doors. You did n’t get on the police department by yourself, the police chief did n’t get there by herself. People had to march and go to jail and some lost their lives to open the doors for you and how dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
You thought that no one would respond. You thought no one would care. Well, tomorrow the Vice President of the United States is coming to his funeral.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
We will continue in Tyre’s name to head up to Martin’s mountaintop.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
They will never ever recover from the loss. Every holiday, there’ll be a missing chair at their table. Every day this mother and father and brothers and sisters will have to remember he’s gone, but we will never leave them.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
People from around the world watched the videotape of a man – unarmed, unprovoked – being beat to death by officers of the law, you thought that no one would respond. You thought no one would care. Well, tomorrow the Vice President of the United States is coming to his funeral.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
You cannot stand up to Putin and have a little Putin-ism in your own backyard.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You cannot fight, and you should,for the right for the people ofUkraine to have a democraticstate and make decisions basedon voting and then not deal withthat same right to be upheldhere in America, so, as we look for and pray forthe people in Ukraine, we needto also deal domestically.And I think that connection isvery clear, and we need to makeit clear.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Rooney Rule has been proven to be something the owners used to deceptively appear to be seeking real diversity, we must have firm targets and timetables.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I thought it was a good speech, now, in this particular case, dealing with my friend and brother Joe, if he was trying to get votes, it was not the vote-getting speech … I'm a minister. Either you get up, and you try to persuade people of their sins and appeal to their better angels. But when they come to church, and they still have the jug of whiskey up under the pew, you say, you’re going to hell. I think he gave a ‘you’re going to hell’ speech.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What has happened in this case, is a lynching in the 21st century.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Voting Rights's always been darkness before light broke through, we come out of that tradition.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
People around him are looking for what's the next chapter in their life, I'll put it that way, where do I get a job ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it may have been( 300) or 400 people there, maybe 20 Black, and for them to give me five or six standing ovations showed that this is a real possibility of us bridging, a real police accountability movement that is based on race, and class.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is about our citizens being brutalized or killed because the federal government hasn't acted.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The issue of policing is not about Black and White. It's about right and wrong.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’ve not reviewed the contracts but much of our work at NAN is aroundeconomic equity and fighting to get MWBE contracts up, not down.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've known Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams 35 years, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams always was in Brooklyn, eric Adams had a mayor for 12 years who used to go to Bermuda for the weekend.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You know, two weeks after I did the eulogy at George Floyd’s funeral I did the eulogy for a 1-year-old kid in Brooklyn killed by a stray bullet in a gang fight, so it is not true that those of us that want police reform do not also at the same time want to deal with crime. And I think that the progressive candidates need to be more out on that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We want something coming out of Washington. We want something that will change federal law, there's been an adjournment on justice for too long. It's time for them to vote and make this the law.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need each and every officer to be held accountable. And until then, it's still scary to be a Black man and woman in America encountering police.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the state jails, you eat what they give you or you starve... it is absolute punishment and punitive beyond the regardless for human rights and dignity, in federal, they have different protocols, and they ask if you have any dietary or religious preferences.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I would have still preferred a Black Attorney General nominee or someone with a clear record on voting rights and police reform, particularly at this day and time, i'm unclear on Judge Garland's record on both and there are very few, if any, written arguments that he has as a Judge to track these positions.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Black Georgia electing Black Georgia first Black Senator-elect and first Jewish American Senator-elect in our time is a sign of a new America. We are bringing America back to where we ought to be and moving forward towards change.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reason that we could not deal with local law enforcement and prosecutors is because of the intrinsic relationship between the local police who were involved in those situations and the prosecutors in those counties, someone that is sensitive to that understands why the federal government and Justice Department needs to intervene. ... So there's a sensitivity practice and an experienced practice that people of color could bring in that was totally absent in the last four years.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We told him that we feel that the exemption for politicians could be used to suppress voting, give wrong messaging and could suppress census taking, he listened.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He listened, he made no firm commitments of change but he seemed open.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He can say what he wants. Call me a troublemaker, yes: I make trouble for bigots.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Were in the post-Obama generation. So, we have already seen a black president, weve already seen a black first family. Now, we want to know what it is going to mean. Symbolism is not enough now. Its substance ... And if there is no substance then weve gotten over the aura of the first.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
She gave us pride, and she gave us a regal bar to reach, and that's why we're all here.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This brother could be any one of us, so let them express and grieve, we are proud of them for standing for justice.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
What we’re going to do about Donald Trump is going to be the spirit of Martin Luther King Day.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
To act as if the President is anything less than the President of the United States until January 20, 2017. He cannot be minimized, marginalized or disregarded without doing the same to the American people.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
For African-Americans and Latino voters, a 50-state run will enhance our leverage and get our interests addressed. We wouldn't just be focusing on a few primary states.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It would be interesting. Bloomberg is one of the few people who could pull off a credible independent candidacy for president, for African-Americans and Latino voters, a 50-state run will enhance our leverage and get our interests addressed. We wouldn't just be focusing on a few primary states.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
What do I want? Nothing! i've been to the White House for Christmas and the Super Bowl with the first black president, had more access than any civil rights leader in history. What can Hillary or any other president do for me?
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If we do not stop this policing problem it doesn't matter if it's a rich area, a poor area, a white area, a black area, this has got to stop because it's going on everywhere.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I thought my coming might give a sense of unity in the city ; that we can disagree on cases and on policies but that we are united that the senseless and ruthless killing of officers like your son must be denounced, it is clear though after reading several articles that some union leaders and some others want to turn Al Sharpton and Al Sharpton pastor’s noble efforts into some kind of confrontation or sideshow.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The lack of diversity in today’s Oscar nominations is appalling, and while it is good that 'Selma' was nominated for Best Picture, it’s ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations, with all of the talent in 'Selma' and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
With all of the talent in 'Selma' and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The lack of diversity in today’s Oscar nominations is appalling, and while it is good that Selma was nominated for ‘Best Picture,’ it’s ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations, with all of the talent in 'Selma' and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He was a philosopher at heart that always saw the bigger picture. Even when we would engage in debate I felt he was playing chess while I was playing checkers, mario, you have earned it and your place in history is secure. You can now sleep with the greats.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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