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This is an archive article published on April 29, 2015

Baltimore unrest shows justice system ‘out of balance’, says Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton says the nation needs to "come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America."

Hillary Clinton, Hillary Baltimore, Hillary Clinton says the nation needs to “come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.” (Source: AP)

Hillary Rodham Clinton says unrest in Baltimore shows that the US has “allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance” but the “violence has to stop.”

Clinton says in her first major policy address as a presidential candidate that the violence in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray shows the need for the US to find balance again in its criminal justice system.

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Gray, a 25-year-old black man, suffered a spinal-cord injury while in police custody in Baltimore.

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The Democrat says the nation needs to “come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”

In a speech at Columbia University, Clinton is calling for reforms to the criminal justice system, including the addition of body cameras to every police department in the country.

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