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A Little Late: Hillary Clinton Weighs On Ferguson, Laments Racial Inequities
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| Hillary Rodham Clinton Source: www.politico.com |
Hillary Clinton broke her silence on the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, on Thursday, arguing Americans “cannot ignore the inequities” in the criminal justice system.
“Imagine what we would feel, what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police at a traffic stop as black drivers, instead of the other way around,” she said in response to the racially charged unrest that unfolded in Ferguson after the Aug. 9 police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, Time reported.
“If white offenders received prison sentences 10 percent longer than black offenders for the same crimes. If a third of all white men — just look at this room and take one third — went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. that is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans and so many of the communities in which they live,” she said during a paid speech in San Francisco.
Mrs. Clinton praised President Obama’s decision to send Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson for an investigation, which is “both appropriate and necessary to find out what happened, to see that justice is done, to help this community begin healing itself,” she said.
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