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There’s a lingering and certainly learned notion that strikes Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) when she watches the protest marches across the country regarding recent high-profile cases in which black men have been shot by white cops under questionable circumstances with no ensuing legal action.

Namely, what’s the end game for the protestors?

It’s one thing to march in frustration, as the former (and present) civil rights stalwart knows quite well. But at the same time. . .

What’s the end game?

“One of the issues with these protests, as important as they are, are the demands,” Norton said Tuesday on NewsChannel 8’s NewsTalk. “What is it that you want? And the protesters have yet to clearly articulate their demands.

“Where do you want to get and how do you get there?”

Do tell.

“The concrete solution to me seems to be clear,” she said. “First of all, why aren’t the protesters demanding to sit down with at least the mayor(s), if not the police, to have a conversation about what should be done to change the police department(s).”

And specifically, the legal manner in which such cases are prosecuted – or not prosecuted.

“You will never have a white prosecutor who is having to prosecute a black person for having done something to a policeman who will be believed,” Norton said. “Why shouldn’t the mayor say, ‘You know, . .whenever there is a killing of a person of color by a cop, black or white, there will be a special prosecutor.’”