US president discusses his own experiences of racially biased policing during discussion on criminal justice reform,and defends movement against criticsBarack Obama defended the Black Lives Matter movement from its critics on Thursday, saying the campaigners had raised genuine problems that should be tackled as part of criminal justice reform.
During remarks that included his personal experiences of racially biased policing, or Obama tried to rebut what he said were mischaracterizations of the modern civil rights movement,and he pushed back against the “All Lives Matter” slogan that is sometimes used to critique it.
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Source: theguardian.com