"John Leonard Burris" is an United States/American civil rights attorney, based in Oakland, California, known for his work in police brutality cases representing plaintiffs.

He briefly represented Rodney King in his suit against the Los Angeles Police Department and is most recently noted for filing a civil suit over the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant. Burris also represented controversial basketball star Latrell Sprewell. Burris has appeared as a legal commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and other cable and local television networks.

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I had to get on the floor and play and try to communicate and try to bring his level of understanding to a level of something he could relate to.

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Was she sending a message of fear?

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He clearly did not mean to kill anyone, did not mean to shoot anyone. He was as shocked and dismayed as anyone ... when he found out at a later point what had happened.

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I think in the future it will provide more precautions for people who are exercising their First Amendment rights and at the same time give police officers a clear directive as to how to handle those situations.

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The aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina illustrated to me that the poor and destitute Americans on the margins of our society looked poorer than people in Third World countries, and that was amazing to me. It's just a sad illustration of the economic strata of American life.

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I didn't know (about her TV appearance) until after it happened.

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They basically had an ordinary guy, and he was involved in an extraordinarily heinous crime. He just was not a likable person.

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There were a number of community people here because he's a very well-liked young man because he's friendly, helpful and gets along well with different ethnic groups.

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There's no question, folks will watch video on their phones.

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