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Sandra Bland's mother to campaign for Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton will campaign next week with the mother of Sandra Bland, the Chicago-area woman who was discovered hanged in her jail cell three days after being pulled over for a routine traffic stop near Houston.
Geneva Reed-Veal will join the Democratic presidential candidate at a Feb. 17 voter mobilization event in Chicago. Bland's death has become a symbol of the racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. Her family, black leaders and other activists have questioned her treatment by white law enforcement officers and the determination she committed suicide.
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Other African-American mothers whose children were victims of gun violence, including Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis; are planning to campaign for Clinton in South Carolina in the coming weeks.
Sanders aides said the Vermont senator isn't as well-known as Clinton, one of the country's most famous politicians, within minority communities.....
African-American leaders backing Clinton targeted Sanders on Wednesday, saying he's done little to help their community with gun violence, criminal justice inequities or civil rights
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/33c1340af432466085e28f0c784fe5f8/sandra-blands-mother-campaign-hillary-clinton
Geneva Reed-Veal will join the Democratic presidential candidate at a Feb. 17 voter mobilization event in Chicago. Bland's death has become a symbol of the racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. Her family, black leaders and other activists have questioned her treatment by white law enforcement officers and the determination she committed suicide.
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Other African-American mothers whose children were victims of gun violence, including Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis; are planning to campaign for Clinton in South Carolina in the coming weeks.
Sanders aides said the Vermont senator isn't as well-known as Clinton, one of the country's most famous politicians, within minority communities.....
African-American leaders backing Clinton targeted Sanders on Wednesday, saying he's done little to help their community with gun violence, criminal justice inequities or civil rights
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/33c1340af432466085e28f0c784fe5f8/sandra-blands-mother-campaign-hillary-clinton
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thinking about Ms. Reed-Veal and the other moms who have lost children due to police and system abuses. 
They have such courage and dignity to stand up and speak out. 
