FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014 file photo, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. participates in a TV interview on Capitol Hill in Washington. Americans have questioned the state of race relations after gun violence directed at police officers as well as shootings by police. Last week, a black Army veteran killed five police officers in Dallas in revenge for police shooting black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Minneapolis suburbs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)