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VIDEO: L.A. Civil Rights Leader in San Bernardino to Confront 'Horrific' Killings

Eddie Jones Jr., president of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Association, arrived by Metrolink in San Bernardino.

A Los Angeles civil rights leader came to San Bernardino Friday night to confront the "horrific murders" of more than a dozen people in the city in the past five weeks.

Eddie Jones Jr., president of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Association, arrived by Metrolink just after 9 p.m. Friday.

Speaking trackside at the Santa Fe Depot terminus for Metrolink, Jones said he came "because of all the murders" that have occurred in the month of May and earlier Friday.

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"What we want to do while we're here, is we want to call on the Department of Justice, we want to call on the FBI, and we want to call on internal affairs to find out why are all these people being shot and killed in the city of San Bernardino," Jones said.

"We're here to investigate the shootings, the killings, and we want to make amends with whoever's causing these problems, and get to the bottom of it and get them incarcerated, we want them put in jail, and we want them to serve time and go to trial for these hideous and unncessary murders that have taken place here.

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"It's affecting all the people that live here in this city, and it's affecting the families, the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, the brothers. They have now lost their loved ones, and it's just unheard of. If it was any other place, the FBI would be involved already . . . "

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