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What is it like to be a black police officer in America?

Season 2016 Episode 1970 | 4m 34s

NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan sits down with the President of the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas for a deeper look at police misconduct, the code of silence, and what it is like to be both a police officer and an African American in 2016.

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