Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.