The Rev. With Mineo at a press conference
The incoming attorney general in the Obama administration must make investigating police brutality a top priority, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday.
The minute we get a new attorney general, we must go to that attorney general and deal with the issue of police misconduct,” Sharpton said in a fiery address at his Harlem headquarters.
Sharpton said that federal investigations in the Abner Louima and Rodney King cases led to convictions, while state prosecutions in the cases of Bell and Amadou Diallo did not.
We must bring the case of Sean Bell and other cases that haven’t been handled well in the states to the federal level. We want a society where the police are not above the law.
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