And as a report that came out just this week reminded us, there are a lot of African-Americans—not just me —who have that same kind of story of being pulled over, or frisked, or something.

And as a report that came out just this week reminded us, there are a lot of African-Americans—not just me —who have that same kind of story of being pulled over, or frisked, or something. And the data shows that this is not an aberration. It doesn’t mean each case is a problem. It means that when you aggregate all the cases and you look at it, you’ve got to say that there’s some racial bias in the system.

President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at the 122nd Annual IACP Conference,” The White House (Office of the Press Secretary), October 27, 2015. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/27/remarks-president-122nd-annual-iacp-conference.

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