A woman holds a poster bearing the portrait of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman who killed herself in a Texas jail cell on July 13th, during a Michael Brown memorial rally on Union Square August 9, 2015 in New York. Demonstrators showed support on the one year anniversary on the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, throwing America’s troubled race relations into harsh relief. AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Donald Lightfoot holds a sign in support of Rekia Boyd while joining other protesters in Chicago on Monday, April 20, 2015. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)
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DETROIT, MI – JULY 14: Mertilla Jones , who witnessed Detroit police officer Joe Weekley shoot her 7 year old grandaugher Aiyana Jones in May of 2010, speaks at Grand Circus Park on July 14, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Paul Warner/Getty Images)
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Monica McBride, center, is seen with attorney Gerald Thurswell, left, and spokesman Ron Scott, right, during a news conference in Southfield, Mich., Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. Monica’s daughter, Renisha McBride, was shot on Nov. 2 in the face on Theodore P. Wafer’s front porch in Dearborn Heights. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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UNITED STATES – OCTOBER 3: Family and friends of Miriam Carey, who was killed last year by Capitol Police, protest her death on the West Front of the Capitol, October 3, 2014. Carey was shot and killed by Capitol Police on October 3, 2013, after a high-speed chase. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2015/08/13: Members of Wondaland shout, ‘Say his name!’ during the verse of their song ‘Hell You Talmbout,’ with recording artists Janelle Monae (left of center)) and Jidenna (center) leading the group. Members of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network held a rally in Times Square with Wondaland performers, including recording artists Jidenna and Janelle Monae, who performed their new protest song ‘Hell You Talmbout.’. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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CHARLESTON, SC – JUNE 20: A march sponsored by the Black Lives Matter movement walks through the streets to commemorate the lives lost in the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 20, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof, 21 years old, has been charged with killing nine people during a prayer meeting in the church on June 17. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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BALTIMORE, MD – MAY 30: Protesters shout ‘Black Lives Matter’ during former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s official announcement of his candidacy for the U.S. presidency during an event at Federal Hill Park May 30, 2015 in Baltimore Maryland. O’Malley joins Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in seeking the Democratic nomination. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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CHARLESTON, SC – JUNE 20: A march sponsored by the Black Lives Matter movement walks through the streets to commemorate the lives lost in the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 20, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof, 21 years old, has been charged with killing nine people during a prayer meeting in the church on June 17. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Members of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ alliance stage a protest outside the Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s home as they try to force him to fire LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck, in Los Angeles, California on June 7, 2015. The alliance have renewed protests after a recent report from an LAPD watchdog determined that the August 11, 2014 officer-involved shooting death of 25-year-old Ezell Ford in South Central was justified. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
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PORTLAND, ME – APRIL 16: Black lives matter protest at Portland City Hall Thursday, April 16, 2015. (Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
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TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 – Demonstrators chant ‘black lives matter’ during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
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Attorney Kwame Thompson, left, speaks as a protestor holds signs in the background outside the McKinney police department headquarters in McKinney, Texas, Friday, June 19, 2015. The families of several teens who attended the pool party at Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney that lead to to the resignation of McKinney’ police officer Eric Casebolt have hired lawyers for representation. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Patrons leave the gated entrance for the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney, Texas, Friday, June 19, 2015. The families of several teens who attended the pool party here that lead to to the resignation of McKinney’ police officer Eric Casebolt have hired lawyers for representation. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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