Sir Clare Roberts, former attorney general of Antigua and Barbuda, serves on an independent commission — the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence against People of African Descent in the United States — looking into police violence against people of African descent in the US. He speaks with host Marco Werman as jury selection begins in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in the killing of George Floyd.
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