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The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, introduces Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at the National Action Network South Carolina Ministers' Breakfast, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

White House dodges about Biden promising Al Sharpton that he will seek a second term

The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, introduces Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at the National Action Network South Carolina Ministers' Breakfast, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Report: Biden told Al Sharpton he will seek second term

Director Spike Lee, left, and journalist Al Sharpton, right, attend the premiere for "Loudmouth" at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center during the 2022 Tribeca Festival on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Al Sharpton takes a bow, with Spike, to close out Tribeca

In this file photo, the Reverend Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump speak at the funeral for 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta, killed on Dec. 23, by a LAPD police officer's stray bullet while shopping with her mother, is readied for her funeral at the City of Refuge Church in Gardena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/David Swanson) **FILE**

Colgate shareholders reject proposal to stop donating to Al Sharpton

The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, speaks to reporters after touring an encampment of migrants, mostly from Haiti, along the Del Rio International Bridge, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Al Sharpton’s border visit derailed by protesters who accused him of ‘race-baiting’

People arrive for the funeral for Andrew Brown Jr., Monday, May 3, 2021 at Fountain of Life Church in Elizabeth City, N.C. Brown was fatally shot by Pasquotank County Sheriff deputies trying to serve a search warrant. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Calls for justice at N.C. funeral of Andrew Brown Jr.

Rev. Al Sharpton eulogies Daunte Wright during funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool)

Andrew Brown Jr. funeral set for Monday with Sharpton eulogy

Daunte Wright's casket is removed from the hearse for funeral services behind an escort of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The 20-year-old Wright was killed by then-Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop on April 11. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Rev. Al Sharpton to lecture at Tennessee State University

The Rev. Al Sharpton listens during an interview at his office, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in New York. For more than three decades, Sharpton, 65, has been an advocate for Black American families seeking justice in the wake of violence that highlight systemic racism. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Decades later, Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

FILE - In this June 9, 2020 file photo, the Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during the funeral for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston. A national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia. This comes amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans. Although many marchers will arrive via charter buses from surrounding communities on Aug. 28, the Rev. Al Sharpton will ask others to join satellite marches in states that are considered hot spots for COVID-19. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)

March on Washington reconfigured to comply with virus rules

In this June 15, 2020 file photo, people march down the street towards the Georgia state Capitol to protest against the mistreatment of black people and to press for policy change, in Atlanta. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was created more than a century ago. But the hymn dubbed as the Black national anthem has resurrected a beacon of hope during recent nationwide protests. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ Black national anthem, embraced by protesters

In this June 19, 2020, photo, people attend a peaceful rally in Chicago to mark Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates the day in 1865 that enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ hymn ignites hope across nation

The funeral home team pushes the casket of George Floyd into the hearse as the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, looks on after the funeral service for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool)

George Floyd laid to rest after emotionally charged ‘homecoming celebration’

FILE - This undated file handout photo provided by Christopher Harris shows George Floyd. The message from protesters around the United States is that George Floyd is the latest addition to a grim roster of African Americans to be killed by police In demonstration after demonstration, protesters are carrying signs that include the names of other blacks whose lives ended violently in encounters with police. (Christopher Harris via AP, File)

Floyd mourned, celebrated as death used as call to action

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Dominique Sharpton, Al Sharpton's eldest child, is reportedly suing New York City for $5 million after she tripped on a crosswalk and sprained her ankle. (National Action Network)

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Sharpton noted the civil rights movement led by King opened doors for Black city workers in Memphis and elsewhere and said the five Black officers insulted King's legacy by beating Tyre to death.

Tyre Nichols' mom RowVaughn Wells, police Chief Cereyln Davis: Women on two sides of a tragedy →

If not for the efforts of King and others in the civil rights movement, the five officers would not have had jobs in law enforcement or been assigned to an elite police squad, Sharpton said.

Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing →

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