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Kamala Harris: “I was the first black woman elected district attorney of San…”

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris gives remarks at memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson

Published | Video Starts at 07:32

I was a law Student Then in 1988, when Jesse Jackson decided to run again. I was the first black woman elected district attorney of San Francisco as the first black woman elected district attorney in the state of California in 2004. when I created one of the first in the nation initiatives as a prosecutor that was about getting jobs and counseling to, to those who had been in the criminal justice system. (07:32–07:43)

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Asserts that Kamala Harris was the first black woman elected district attorney in San Francisco and California in 2004.

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