Porter: Black men are seen as 'suspects before citizens'
Jazz singer Gregory Porter says US police treat young black men as a "suspect before a citizen".
The Grammy-award winning musician said he was "frisked" by police 17 times by the time he went to college.
Porter said he felt sorry for young black men who did not have the support of a "good strong mother" to counter all the "resentment and anger" the treatment generated.
"We lived in a nicer neighbourhood and sometimes if a policeman was driving by he'd just assume I didn't live there and that I should be checked out," he said.
This clip is originally from Sam Walker on Thursday 4 September 2014.
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