By Rev. Al Sharpton
President and Founder of the National Action Network
Forty-nine years ago on this very day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was
killed in Memphis, Tennessee, fighting for sanitation workers and
preparing to lead the poor people’s campaign. It was exactly one year
since Dr. King delivered his Beyond Vietnam sermon from the pulpit of
Riverside Church in Harlem, New York. Yesterday, on the eve of this day
of memory, it was made public that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions
has called for a review of federal agreements with dozens of law
enforcement departments, including a 90-day delay of an already agreed
upon consent decree with the Baltimore Police Department. It is, in
effect, suspending and attempting to eradicate concrete police reform
that many of us in the civil rights and activist community fought for
and got the Obama Administration to begin. It is the epitome of insult
and a slap in the face of justice that the Attorney General would, on
this day in particular, try to roll back the clock on police
accountability and fairness.
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