Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, today marks the day 14 years ago that Sean

Bell was murdered by the police. 

Sean Bell would have turned 37 today. He was 23 years old

when he was stolen from us, on his wedding day in 2006. As with

so many cases of police violence, Sean was unarmed, non

violent, but most importantly, Black. The NYPD fired over 50

shots and took the life of a father of two just hours before he was

to be married.

Sean was a father, a member of my community, a constituent of

New York’s 5th Congressional district, and because of the color

of his skin: a target. 

Fourteen years have passed and nothing has changed. Our

communities are still being targeted and people are still being

murdered because their Black. In the case Sean's murder, like so

many others, the cops walked. No charges. 

This is our America, a country were cops brutally murder

unarmed Black people and walk. America was built on racism.

No cultural shift will ever change that. We need accountability

and policy that protects our communities from the racism so

deeply woven into American society. 

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist,

we must be anti-racist.”― Angela Y. Davis

Our policy must be strong and thoughtful. We must legislate

with our communities, not for our communities. We must be

aggressively Anti-Racist! 

We will fight for:

Legislation mandating nationwide police retraining focusing on

de-escalation, not combat.

Legislation that federally mandates the demilitarization of police.

Legislation that abolishes federal grants to local police

departments.

Legislation that mandates the adoption of community policing

tactics nationwide.

Legislation that creates a Department of Police Investigation

that investigates and tracks every police shooting nationwide.

I am honored to have the endorsement of Shaun King, one of

the strongest voices in the country for police accountability. It is

people like Shaun that ensure we never forget the deadly

consequences of our racist society. 

Together, Shaun King and I are fighting for people like Freddie

Gray, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Amaud Abrey, Sean Bell

and so many others who were killed by racist cops that, to

often, face no accountability. 

Our communities need leaders that fight to protect them from the

racism and over policing that  continue to victimize people of

color in America. Help us bring our fight to Congress in June. 

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anti-racist Congress. Help us fight to end the seemingly

unending stream of police violence in America. 

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In Solidarity,

Shaniyat Chowdhury