Kamala Harris strives to redefine her record as prosecutor: 'It matters who is in those rooms'
by Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times
Jun 09, 2019
3 minutes
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Kamala Harris offered her most vehement justification yet for her prosecutorial career, saying on Saturday she sought to reshape a criminal justice system that many minorities consider fundamentally biased against them.
"Why is it that we should only be on the outside of the system?" she told an audience of 650 at a gala for the South Carolina NAACP. "Isn't there a role for us to play being on the inside, where the decisions are made?"
The speech marked the California senator's attempt to find
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