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

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

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.

AIR DATE 7/15/16

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