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Holder: U.S. Has 'Failed' To Make Progress Between Police And Minorities

18.12.14

Holder: U.S. Has 'Failed' To Make Progress Between Police And Minorities: talkingpointsmemo.com -- addressing current tensions over several police killings of unarmed black men, the host of "The Reid Report" brought up an infamous case from 1999 in which a person of color was shot dead by police.

"In a similar case in New York, Amadou Diallo, a young West African immigrant who was shot in the vestibule of his own apartment building," she said. "What does it say that we essentially are in the same exact place now, so many years later?"

"It means that we, as a nation, have failed. It's as simple as that. We have failed," Holder replied.

Reid also asked the attorney general whether young blacks or Latinos growing up should fear the police.


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