[Defunding the Police]
Grassroots Groups: “We come together to call for divestment from policing and investment in resources that directly impact the health and safety of Black communities: healthcare, housing…”
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Breonna Taylor
GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER: 8 MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS
[George Floyd\Oakland Institute]
Oakland Institute: “Today millions of Americans are rising up, collectively expressing outrage, and demanding an end to racism and violence against Black and Brown communities.”
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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE TO GOVERNOR AND MAYOR: TIME TO ADDRESS INEQUITIES IN POLICING
[Reforming Police in New York}
Williams: “We must demonstrate that we are committed to making tangible and immediate changes that will address the inequities in our policing system that are at the heart of these protests.”
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BI-PARTISAN GROUP: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM HARMS BLACKS UNDER GUISE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
[George Floyd\Criminal Justice Reform]
“In our work at FWD.us, we will continue to hold that public safety cannot mean “protecting” white communities at the expense of Black communities.”
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GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER A RESULT OF AMERICA’S POLITICAL FAILURE TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY
[“Speaking Truth To Empower”]
Benjamin: “George Floyd’s murder could’ve been prevented if politicians, and prosecutors, had a zero-tolerance policy regarding police brutality.”
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BLACK MAN APPARENTLY KILLED BY POLICE DURING GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS IN KENTUCKY
[Police Violence & Murder\David McAtee]
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer: “We lost a wonderful citizen named David McAtee. David was a friend to many, a well-known Barbecue man.”
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GEORGE FLOYD: IS MULTI-RACIAL MASS MOVEMENT EMERGING AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY?
[Future Hope Column]
Glick: “I started seeing young people, teenagers, mainly women and mainly white, stretching out for what became a quarter of a mile, chalking literally dozens of messages, including:…’ Remember George Floyd.”
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BLACK ALLIANCE FOR PEACE CALLS ON U.N. TO ADDRESS AMERICA’S HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS
[United Nations\America’s Human Rights Crisis]
Black Alliance: “Police authorities have been documented for abusing their power while enforcing COVID-19 mitigation efforts such as social distancing, which has been impossible for overcrowded African/Black communities.”
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CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS, TO CALL FOR FEDERAL REFORM OF POLICE
[George Floyd\Police Reform]
The leaders of the nation’s top civil rights and social justice organizations and several members of Congress have scheduled a media briefing to demand federal action to reform the nation’s police departments.
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TOM STEYER ON GEORGE FLOYD: “THE RECKLESS KILLING OF BLACK PEOPLE MUST STOP”
[George Floyd Murder\Tom Steyer]
Steyer: “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of the two Americas — one full of equity, prosperity, and opportunity; the other, rooted in indignity, inhumanity, and despair. The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police has laid bare these inequities.”
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