And he’s not talking about black-on-black crime.

COOPER: Do you believe this will have what is happening here behind the scenes or this killing will have an impact the way Rodney King [did]?

JONES: Absolutely. This is transforming a generation of young black activists and political leaders —

COOPER: Really? This incident?

JONES: This incident. Well, you have to remember all summer long you had African-American unarmed men killed all summer and when you have a summer like this, just like ’92, my generation of young activists, we were totally changed in terms of our understanding of what we need to do to make the system work better for us. It’s happening right now with this generation.

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