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Mary Sanchez: Want to change police culture? Look to the sergeants

Jamaal Bowman, D- N.Y., took recently as he threw shade at Biden and the fact that the president extended an invitation to Tyre Nichols’ surviving mother and stepfather for his State of the Union address on February 7. Nichols was the 29- year-old man who was beaten to death by a special unit of Memphis police officers early last month. Nichols died days later in the...

Policing is in urgent need of reform, but it will not happen through the efforts the nation will soon witness.

Not with President Joe Biden addressing a grieving family with “thoughts and prayers” and inviting them to “come to the State of the Union after your kid gets killed.”

That is the facetious tone that House Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., took recently as he threw shade at Biden and the fact that the president extended an invitation to Tyre Nichols’ surviving mother and stepfather for

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