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Baltimore Mayor on Charlotte: ‘No Matter What the Video Shows,’ Solving Racial Bias the Answer

‘If you are involved in a police interaction, that interaction shouldn’t be shaded by the shade of your skin’
By Grabien Staff
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RAWLINGS-BLAKE: “So we know that there are multiple videos, and the officer that you just spoke to saw one version of that. We talk about the video and the transparency as this, you know, this would be — magically solve all the problems. It won’t. We have to deal with the underlying issues, the social justice issues. The fact that in too many communities there is a clear sense that there is a bias, a racial bias, against African-Americans, we have to deal with those issues if we think that we’re going to prevent such violence from erupting in the future. People have to have confidence that no matter what the video shows, that there’s going to be justice. And my hope is that, like as I said, in cities across our country, that we can have a national discussion about things like racial bias, about things like the use of force policy in our police force because it is those broader issues, those underlying issues, that, I think, are fueling a lot of the distrust and this push. You know, you’re saying it’s the call for the video but it’s really a call for justice, a call for blind justice that, you know, if you are involved in a police interaction, that that interaction shouldn’t be shaded by the shade of your skin, that you will be treated equally. And to me, we can’t lose sight of the need to do the work in those areas.”

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