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In his eulogy for Tyre Nichols on Wednesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton singled out the five Black Memphis police officers indicted for their roles in Nichols's death.

Noting that the alleged crimes took place not far from the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered on April 4, 1968, while waging a protest campaign to try to ensure the safety of Black workers in the city, Sharpton drew a line connecting the legacy of the slain civil rights hero to the killing of Nichols.

The reason why, Mr. and Mrs. Wells [Nicholss stepfather and mother], what happened to Tyre is so personal to me is that five Black men that wouldnt have had a job in the police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad in the city that Dr. King lost his life, not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death, Sharpton said in his address.

The Rev. Al Sharpton delivers the eulogy at the funeral service for Tyre Nichols in Memphis on Wednesday. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP)

"There's nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us that fight to open doors that you walk through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through them doors," Sharpton added. "You didnt get on the police department by yourself. The police chief didnt get there by herself. People had to march and go to jail, and some lost their lives to open the doors for you, and how dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing!

Sharptons remarks come amid a debate about whether Nicholss killing should be seen as another example of racism against Black Americans given that Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr., the officers indicted for second-degree murder, aggravated assault and two charges of aggravated kidnapping, are all also Black.

On Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., noted that the city is Democrat-controlled and the five officers that have been arrested and charged are Black. And I think that this isnt an issue of racism or anything like that.

Sharpton's speech, by contrast, singled out the behavior of the officers and framed it in the larger context of racial relations in the U.S.

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The funeral of Tyre Nichols at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP)

The tape speaks for itself. They never asked this man for his license. Never asked for the car registration. Snatched him out of the car and began beating him, Sharpton said. Nobody mentioned nothing about no girlfriend. Nobody mentioned nothing about they started beating an unarmed man.

In the city that they slayed the dreamer, he continued, what has happened to the dream? In the city where the dreamer lay down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern.

As with the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, many Americans have demanded that Nicholss death push the country to embark on systemic changes in law enforcement. Sharpton clearly shares that wish, but he took pains to highlight the behavior of the officers who have been charged.

We understand that there are concerns about public safety. We understand that there are needs to deal with crime, but you dont fight crime by becoming criminals yourself. You dont stand up to thugs in the street [by] becoming thugs yourself. You dont fight gangs by becoming five armed men against an unarmed man. That aint the police, thats punks.

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President Biden told Rev. Al Sharpton that he will run for re-election in 2024 during a visit to the White House that was reportedly recounted by the clergyman to his staffers.

Sharpton shared the revelation with employees of his National Action Network after meeting with the commander-in-chief earlier this month, NBC News reported on Monday.

Im going to do it again, Biden told Sharpton as they posed for a photograph in the Roosevelt Room, a National Action Network official recounted Sharpton saying.

Biden, 79, met with leaders of civil rights organizations on Sept. 2, including Sharpton, the White House said in a readout from that meeting.

The group discussed their shared commitment to advancing legislation protecting voting rights and to combating hate-fueled violence, the readout said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Post.

Biden has not announced officially whether he would seek a second term, and has brushed off questions that seek to get him to tip his hand.

Look, my intention, as I said to begin with, is that I would run again. But its just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen, Biden said during an interview last month on CBS News 60 Minutes.

Its much too early to make that kind of decision. Im a great respecter of fate. And so, what Im doing is Im doing my job. Im gonna do that job, he said. And within the timeframe that makes sense after this next election cycle here, going into next year, make a judgment on what to do.

That interview aired two weeks after Biden hosted Sharpton in the White House.

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President Biden reportedly told Rev. Al Sharpton at a White House event early last month that he planned to run for a second term in 2024.

The interaction is said to have happened between the two on September 2, when Biden met with leaders from legacy Black civil rights organizations, including Sharpton.

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An official from Sharptons National Action Network who spoke to NBC News recounted Biden as telling Sharpton: "Im going to do it again Im going."

Fox News has reached out to the White House and the National Action Network for comment but did not hear back before publication.

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Biden, so far, has refused to state publicly whether he intends to run for a second term. In an interview with CBS "60 Minutes" which aired Sunday, September 18, Biden said it was "much too early" to make any decision on launching a re-election bid.

"Look, my intention, as I said, that began with is that I would run again. But its just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen."

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The 79-year-old Biden has said numerous times that if he remains healthy, he intends to run for re-election.

Fox News Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

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MSNBCs Rev. Al Sharpton has warned Democrats that theyre not connecting with minority voters ahead of the midterm elections.

Sharpton appeared on MSNBCs Morning Joe Monday and warned that it could spell doom for the Democrats in November.

Host Joe Scarborough said: The question is are Democrats doing what it makes to keep those who have loyally voted Republican, are Democratic voting Democratic because right now, you have people of color breaking away from the Democratic Party and you have white college-educated suburban voters breaking away from Republicans, so its creating a real flux.

Sharpton said: The Democratic Party and President Biden does have some things they could be using that theyve done that has benefited clearly black and Latinos, but its not connecting.

I spent the last two or three days in Washington speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus and the concern we have is how we are connecting the base to the message.

So youre seeing this as the polls indicate, Latinos and Black men go the other way because theyre not getting their message to the ground in the way they should.

And I think that that is the challenge they have in these last four or five weeks.

Clearly, the thing that is making this competitive is the Supreme Court decision on womens right to choose and the fact that Donald Trump wont leave the stage.

Those are the only things that are really helping the Democrats stay in the game.

They must connect the message to those that would be energized.

At this point, that has not happened.

I think coming out of the caucus, we can, they are trying to make that connection, he said.

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Looking at the national polling, it seems possible that Democrats might not be able to count on nearly as much support from Black voters as they have in previous elections.

An average of the final five live interview polls of the 2020 election showed Biden with an 84% to 9% lead over then-President Donald Trump among Black voters a big 75-point advantage.

But this year, an average of the last five live interview polls I could find gives Democrats a 74% to 12% advantage among Black voters a 62-point edge on the generic congressional ballot, which usually asks respondents some form of the following question: If the elections for Congress were held today, would you vote for the Democratic or Republican party?

This represents a larger swing toward Republicans by Black voters than the swing we have seen among all voters from the 2020 baseline.

Notably, the final five live interview polls I could get from the 2018 midterms showed Democrats with an 85% to 9% lead on the generic ballot with Black voters. Again, what were seeing this year is clearly different.

This shift among Black voters isnt something new. Back in April, I pointed out that Democrats had a 73% to 11% advantage among this demographic on the generic ballot.

To me, this consistency indicates that it isnt statistical noise were witnessing. Its something more concrete than that.

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