“It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.”

American politician and attorney

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who was born in 1946. He served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018 and spent two decades in the United States Senate representing Alabama. A Republican, Sessions was a senator from 1997 to 2017 before leaving the seat to join the first administration of President Donald Trump as attorney general. His tenure ended in 2018, after Trump dismissed him during the investigations into Russian interference and after Sessions had recused himself from those probes.