Dem Rep: African-Americans Feel the Police Represent an Army Patrolling an Occupied Territory

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Reid Report,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said, ‘African-Americans all around this country believe that the police represents an army patrolling an occupied territory.”

While discussing the Congressional Black Caucus reaction to officer Darren Wilson not being charged in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, Cleaver said, “What happened actually leads further to the furtherance of the distrust between African-Americans and police because African Americans all around this country believe that the police represents an army patrolling an occupied territory.”

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