Bernie Sanders Draws Line Between Respecting Police and Condemning Racist Brutality

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http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/09/16/at-rally-bernie-sanders-draws-line-between-respecting-police-and-condemning-racist-brutality/

Since then, Sanders has been upping his rhetoric on racial issues, seemingly attempting to show non-white progressives that he is their candidate, too. At his speech at Monday’s rally, he tried to bridge the gap between the need for police and the need for racial justice — which he called a “difficult issue, a sensitive issue, a painful issue.”

From his remarks:

Racism is alive and well in America. And I’m not just talking about that very, very sick person in Charleston, South Carolina a couple months ago who walked into a bible prayer session, prayed with people in the room, and — because they were black — he took out a gun and killed 9 of them.

I’m not just talking about the hundreds of groups in this country whose sole purpose for existence is to propagate hatred. […]

I am also talking about institutional racism. About people like Sandra Bland, and Michael Brown. I am talking about unarmed African Americans killed while in police custody.