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Rev. Al Sharpton called for Americas ministers to demand Department of Justice oversight of the Chicago Police Department on Thursday.

Sharpton claimed that many of the citys police officers are corrupt, citing the alleged coverup of the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald. He asked other ministers to march with him against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying its time for the Christian Right to face the right Christians, CBS Chicago reported.

You cannot have it both ways. You must fight criminal behavior whether the criminal has on blue jeans or a blue uniform, he told CBS. A criminal is a criminal and ought to be treated like that.

Sharpton claimed he knew how to handle the Trump administration, due to his time combating President Donald Trump in New York City, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Ive known him for 35 years, Sharpton said while speaking at a church. If you can meet with the Russians, you can meet with the leaders in Chicago!

Sharpton hopes to gather 1,000 ministers to march in Washington, D.C. next month on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, and several Chicago ministers have already pledged to join him.

Dr. King taught us we must speak truth to power, and it doesnt matter who is in power, Rev. Ira Acree of St. John Bible Church told CBS.

Chicago was on its way to police reform until the Trump administration brought in Jeff Sessions as the attorney general of this nation, said Pastor Cy Fields of New Landmark Baptist Church.

Current and former members of the Chicago Police Department were indicted in June on multiple charges of attempting to cover up the actions of Officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot Laquan McDonald. The city is now also facing a lawsuit demanding that Chicago pass police reforms.

The DOJ declined to respond to The Daily Caller News Foundations request for comment.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton's last high-profile visit to tackle Chicago violence in 2013 may have ended with him admitting he was in over his head.

But if he's not an expert on our city as he acknowledged again on his return Thursday Sharpton says his more than three decades of sparring with President Donald Trump in New York gives him unique insight that can help activists fighting police brutality in Chicago.

"Donald Trump's from New York and I know Donald Trump better than folks in Chicago," Sharpton said Thursday morning as he stood alongside two-dozen Chicago pastors to call for a federal consent decree to oversee the Chicago Police Department.

Invoking the 1989 case of the "Central Park 5," in which Trump placed ads in all four New York papers calling for the death penalty for five men of color who were subsequently wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger, Sharpton said, "That is why I'm working with the ministers and in Chicago to understand what we've got to do under this New Yorker's administration."

"I've known him for 35 years," Sharpton said of Trump at the event at the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in West Garfield Park. "If you can meet with the Russians, you can meet with the leaders in Chicago!"

Of Trump's repeated comments about "sending in the feds" to tackle Chicago crime and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' opposition to the use of a federal consent decree to rein in police misconduct, Sharpton said, "You can't have it both ways, you have to fight criminal behavior whether the criminal has on blue jeans or a blue uniform."

The White House didn't respond to a request for comment.

Sharpton also threw in a couple of barbs at Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who last month backed away from a commitment to seek a court-enforced agreement with the feds to reform the Police Department. Sharpton told his fellow preachers that "You can't close schools and then tell children that you care about them," and asking, "How do you act like Laquan McDonald didn't resonate nationally, when you hid the tapes until after the election?"

The mayor's office didn't respond to the criticism.

Sharpton added that he was in good company if his 2013 visit to Chicago wasn't a total success. Though he had planned to spend three months living on and off on the West Side, and to bring East Coast celebrities including Sean Combs and Spike Lee to Town Hall meetings, he quickly abandoned the idea after touring the city.

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"Dr. King wasn't from Chicago and he came, and Dr. King coming didn't solve all the problems," Sharpton said, referring to the violent reception Martin Luther King Jr. received at the hands of white protestors when he visited Chicago to campaign for fair housing in 1966.

Besides, he said, "they criticize you if you don't come, and I'm gonna keep coming. But I'm going to come to the people in Chicago that are on the ground doing the work."

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CHICAGO -- Reverend Al Sharpton joined WGN Morning News to discuss his plans to gather with local ministers in a push to promote social justice.

Sharpton and other ministers will meet Thursday to voice their concerns over President Donald Trump's plan to send federal agents to Chicago in order to help combat the rise in violence.

Sharpton makes clear that there is nothing wrong with having more resources to help with Chicago violence, but only if the resources are put in the correct area to actually create change.

"There are two sides to this. One, we have to deal with the violence. But we must deal with how law enforcement deals with the violence because there's a law enforcement issue in this city," said Sharpton.

The group is concerned that without dialogue with community leaders and local ministers, the implementation of federal agents in Chicago might actually lead to more problems, not solutions.

When asked about effectively communicating with police and citizens, Sharpton said, "Police have a tough job. Police leave everyday and don't know if they're coming home alive... we're not anti-police, we think most are good but you become a bad policemen if you cover for a bad policemen, just like you're a bad citizen if you cover for a bad citizen."

Sharpton and other civil rights activists across the country are also planning a Minister's March for Justice on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.

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JAY-Z was coming for everybody on his album 4:44. He even threw a shot at Al Sharptonwho has become an Internet sensation after uploading his pre-workout selfie: Al Sharpton in the mirror takin selfies /How is him or Pill Cosby sposed to help me? /Oldniggasnever accepted me, Jigga rapped on Family Feud.

Al initially responded by uploading a selfie with Empires Bryshere Y. Gray during the 2017 Essence Festival.

Then he told TMZ that he was flattered, hes a fan of JAY-Zs and thanks him for the plug.

For a 62-year-old man to go viral because hes on his way to work out, its flattering. Im giving a positive message, Im telling the people, stay in shape no matter what the age He dogged out everybody, and then took a little shot at me. Hey, its all fun. I love Jay Z.

Al also mentioned that this wasnt JAY-Zs first time mentioning him in a song, and hes right. Jay threw a shot at the activist in American Gangstas Say Hello:

And if Al Sharpton is speaking for me Somebody give him the word and tell him I dont approve Tell him I remove the curses If you tell me our schools gon be perfect When Jena Six dont exist Tell him thats when Ill stop saying b*tch

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Updated: Saturday, July 8, 2017, 5:38 PM

The Rev. Al Sharptons National Action Network contributed $5,000 Saturday to assist the three children of assassinated NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia.

Just like we stand with the victims of police brutality, we must stand with the police and their families when they are wrongly murdered, Sharpton announced at his Harlem headquarters.

The donation from NAN boosted the total collected so far by a Daily News fund-raising effort to $88,470. The fund remains open for additional gifts.

Sharpton noted that Familia, 48, left behind a 20-year-old daughter and twin 12-year-olds a boy and a girl. The oldest child is in college.

Fund to help kids of slain NYPD cop Miosotis Familia raises $49G

Those children are robbed because their mother went and defended ... the people of the Bronx, said Sharpton. (She) lost her life because she did what we asked her to do, be a good cop and put on a uniform and do the right thing.

And even though we protest police, we feel their pain and we stand by them.

The 12-year police veteran was marked for death by a cold-blooded killer who shot her in the head from point blank range as Familia sat inside an NYPD vehicle parked on a Bronx street.

The killer was then shot to death by officers barely a block away from the murder scene.

Slain cop Miosotis Familia was mother, former Red Cross worker

Daily News donor Chris Kupchik, who lives in Pennsylvania, said he was stunned by word of Familias execution.

It seemed inconceivable to me that someone could so callously end another persons life, he said. Things like this shouldnt happen not at all.

I know that Ill never be able to stop things like this from happening, but I still felt compelled to do something to try to help ease the pain felt by the family.

The Daily News fund was launched with a $10,000 donation from the newspaper.

A second News contributor insisted on anonymity after kicking in $500.

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Her shooting is about as horrible a story as they come, the donor said about the street shooting. Im a native New Yorker and this felt very personal. Impossible to imagine what the family is going through.

Hopefully your fund will help them make it through this.

Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, joining Sharpton at his House of Justice, described Familia as the head of a large extended family that also includes her 86-year-old mom and nine siblings.

All the aunts and uncles and cousins and sisters and brothers would gravitate around her naturally, said Espaillat, who visited with the Familia clan two days ago.

He also thanked Sharpton for helping out with the needs of the devastated relatives.

I was to thank you for the special show of solidarity with the Familia family, he said. Her loss is not just a loss for her immediate family, but her extended family. So we want to thank you for that.

A Bronx wake was planned for Miosotis Familia on Monday, with a funeral to follow on Tuesday.

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