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NAACP speaks out on traffic stops, black men

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NAACP speaks out on traffic stops, black men
NAACP speaks out on traffic stops, black men
NAACP speaks out on traffic stops, black men

VIRGINIA.ANOTHER POLICE TRAFFIC STOP INAMERICA ANOTHER BLACK MAN DEAD20 YEAR OLD DANTE WRIGHT KILLEDAS POLICE ATTEMPT TO ARREST HIMSUNDAY IN A MINNEAPOLIS.SUBURB POLICE.SAY THE SHOOTING WAS ANACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE NAACPPRESIDENT DEREK JOHNSON SAYSTHAT EXPLANATION ISN’T GOODENOUGH.YOU HAVE A YOUNG MAN WHO’S NOWDEAD A MOTHER GRIEVING A CHILDWITHOUT A FATHER.THAT’S A PROBLEM.WE NEED TO REFORM OUR THESEAGENCIES THE TRAINING NEED TO BEUPDATED JOHNSON IN AN INTERVIEWWITH WOLF BLITZER ON CNN ALSOWEIGHED IN ON A 2020 VIRGINIAPOLICE.STOP WHERE ARMY SECONDLIEUTENANT KARAN NAZARIO WASSPRAYED WITH CHEMICALS ANDSUBJECTED TO DEROGATORY SLANGDURING THE STOP CAUGHT ON POLICEBODY CAMS A OFFICERS BAD SHOULDNOT BE A SHIELD TOACCOUNTABILITY.THESE OFFICERS MUST BE HELDACCOUNTABLE.THERE WAS NO JUSTIFIABLE REASONFOR THEM TO PEPP.GREYHOUND THERE WAS NOJUSTIFIABLE REASON FOR THEM TOORDER HIM OUT OF THE CAR.JOHNSON SAYS OFFICERS AREMISSING OPPORTUNITIES TODE-ESCALATE SITUATIONS HAD THEYSIMPLY ASKED THE QUESTION AREYOUR TAGS UP TO DATE HE COULDHAVE EXPLAINED AND BEEN ALLOWEDTO GO ON THE WAY HE IN THE ENDOF A CP ARE ADVOCATING FORREFORMS THAT IMPROVE POLICINGACROSS THE COUNTRY POLICEOFFICERS MUST BE PUT IN APOSTURE WHERE TH PROTECT ANDSERVE OUR COMMUNITIES ANDCOMMUNITIES MUST BE PLACED THEPOSTURE WHERE THEY’RE NOT INFEAR OF THEIR LIVES BECAUSE OF ATRAFFIC STOP.WE’RE NOT ANTI-POLICE.WE ARE ANTI KILLING OF B

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