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Bernie Sanders: We Must Fight “Institutional Racism in United States”

HeadlineJul 30, 2015

In news from the campaign trail, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has hosted the biggest online and grassroots organizing event of the 2016 campaign. Wednesday night, as many as 100,000 people gathered for simultaneous house parties in all 50 states. During a 20-minute livestream address played during the house parties, Sanders addressed police brutality and the case of Sandra Bland, an African-American woman who died in a Texas jail two weeks ago after being arrested for failing to signal a lane change.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “We are tired of seeing black women yanked out of a car, thrown to the ground, assaulted, put in handcuffs, and then sent to jail and die three days later, in the case of Sandra Bland. For what crime? She didn’t signal that she made a left turn. And we’re seeing that all over this country. Enough is enough. We have got to combat institutional racism in the United States of America.”

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