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"Over the last number of years, we have seen a terrible level of police violence against unarmed people in the minority community." Bernie then goes on to name Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and more. #BlackLivesMatter #BernieInChicago

"Instead of spending $80 billion a year on jails & incarceration, we are going to invest in jobs & education. No more private prisons & detention centers. No more war on drugs. No more keeping people in jail because they are too poor to afford cash bail." #BernieInChicago

"Real police department reform led at the federal level, which says that lethal force is the LAST resort not the FIRST." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"When we talk about criminal justice reform, we are going to change a system in which...not one major Wall St exec went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008. They didn't go to jail. They got a trillion dollar bail out." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Flint, MI is still w/out new pipes for clean water & it's not just Flint. There are 1000s of other communities, often minority, the water they are drinking, the air they are breathing is not fit for human beings...We will create a nation in which all people are treated equally."

"When we are in the White House, we will end the decline of rural America. Re-open the rural hospitals, support family-based agriculture & make sure that our young people have decent jobs so that they don't have to leave the small towns they love & where they grew up."

"When we are in the White House, we will move aggressively to end the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago and in this country. And the @NRA not withstanding, we are going to pass common sense gun safety legislation." -@BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"When we are in the White House, we are going to protect a woman's right to control her body. That is not a decision for the federal gov't or the state gov't or the local gov't. That is a woman's choice and nobody else's." - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago