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WATCH: Black Portland Cop: ‘More Minorities On The Police Side Than You Have In A Violent Crowd’

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Hank Berrien
WATCH: Black Portland Cop: ‘More Minorities On The Police Side Than You Have In A Violent Crowd’
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Speaking about the white radicals who have targeted police in Portland, a black Portland police officer pointed out last week that there are often more minorities in the police force than among the Black Lives Matter protesters.

“It says something when you’re at a Black Lives Matter protest, you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd,” Officer Jakhary Jackson told Portland protest reporter Brandon Farley, “and you have white people screaming at black officers, ‘You have the biggest nose I’ve ever seen.’”

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