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Bernie Sanders: “We must not accept more deaths of unarmed blacks like Sandra…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sanders Speaks at the DNC Summer Meeting

Published | Video Starts at 18:42

We need a political movement which once and for all, will end institutional racism in our country and reform a very, very, very broken criminal justice system. We must not accept more deaths of unarmed blacks like Sandra Bland and Michael Brown or Rekia Boyd and Eric Garner, Walter Scott. and Too many to name. Too many to name. We must not continue being the country in the world with more people in jail than any other. (18:42–18:55)

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Asserts the need to prevent deaths of unarmed Black individuals.

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