Cheryl Dorsey’s Police Behavior Quote

Cheryl Dorsey, a retired L.A. police sergeant on 7/17/2016 stated the following: “and so there are legitimate concerns on both sides of the arena, and understand I come from both worlds as a police officer and as a black woman, and a mother of a young black man, and so, let us not ignore the elephant that is in the room Wolf [referring to Wolf Blitzer of CNN] and let us not pretend that these things don’t have a correlation, and so unless – until, police departments stop minimizing and mitigating the bad behavior of officers, I think it’s my fear we’re going to see young men like this Gavin Long who feel helpless and hopeless, in their situation, act out in a way that’s inappropriate.”

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