dr. gough, such a pleasure to meet you, your leadership at ucla on the center for policing equity is something that is not only vital, in terms of what we need today, it really is the key to a lot of the issues that we face. when i'm looking at the agenda for the entire cbc foundation events, i see so many different panels on so many different issues, but they all come together in regards to the central issue of our community's relationships with law enforcement and with our government writ large. so many of the issues that you all are tackling all this week come back to that essential issue. and so i thank you so much for giving me a few minutes to talk to you this afternoon about what the department of justice is doing in this important area because i will tell you that i view it as one of my main priorities as attorney general of the united states. i know that congressman conyers had to go and vote. he is also pulled in many different directions, but i want to thank him and his staff for the

dr. gough, such a pleasure to meet you. your leadership at ucla on the center for policing equity is something that is not only vital, in terms of what we need today, it really is the key to a lot of the issues that we face. when i'm looking at the agenda for the entire cbc foundation events, i see so many different panels on so many different issues, but they all come together in regards to the central issue of our community's relationships with law enforcement and with our government writ large. i view it as one of my main priorities as attorney general of united states. i know that the congressman had .o go and vote he's been in this fight for a .ong time justve many of you, not here on the panel, but out here in the audience, i see a lot of fighters. a lot of people who have walked a lot of lines and walked across a lot of bridges. i thank you for that as well. whether you have been in the struggle for years or whether you are new to an part of the new and exciting and dynamic young voices that we need to tell us the tr

dr. gough, such a pleasure to meet you.our leadership at ucla on the center for policing equity is something that is not only vital, in terms of what we need today, it really is the key to a lot of the issues that we face. when i'm looking at the agenda for the entire cbc foundation events, i see so many different panels on so many different issues, but they all come together in regards to the central issue of our community's relationships with law enforcement and with our government writ large. aw enforcr government writ large. so many of the issues you are tackling all this week comes back to that essential issue. i thank you so much for giving me a few minutes to talk to you this afternoon about what the department of justice is doing in this important area. i view it as one of my main priorities as attorney general of the u.s. i know that congressman conyers had to go and vote. he is also pulled in many directions. i want to thank him and his staff for their invitation to this event as well as for setting up this partic