Arrest George Floyd’s murderers
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Dear Friend,

We are grieving that George Floyd was killed by four police officers
earlier this week.[1] A father and a son, George worked security at a
restaurant, where fellow employees say he was loved by all. "Knowing my
brother is to love my brother," George's brother Philonise told CNN
earlier this week.

George was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who knelt
on George’s neck for seven minutes until he died as he gasped the words
we’ve tragically heard before, “I can’t breath” and called for his mother.
Three of Chauvin's colleagues stood by and watched Chauvin end George's
life. [2]

We know this is incredibly hard to read, and to witness. In fact, we know
many decided they wouldn't watch this video, that it was one more police
killing of a Black person too many. We also know it’s magnitudes of times
harder to have to live with structural racism than to read about it.
[ [link removed] ]And, we know we absolutely must demand change. 

No mother should have to worry about the loss of a loved one at the hands
of those charged with protection. No one should lose their lives.

[ [link removed] ]*Join us to demand that all four police officers who killed George
Floyd are charged with murder and for the vicious and inflammatory attacks
on protesters, including the inflammatory attacks by President Trump, to
stop immediately.

We grieve, we’re angry, and we cannot stop holding leaders accountable.
This includes prosecutors, who hold more power in the criminal justice
system than almost anyone else. It includes everyone from mayors and
governors to the President of the United States. It includes the media and
our own friends and family.

Sadly, it’s not just George Floyd. It’s Breonna Taylor. It’s Ahmaud Arbery
and Atatiana Jefferson. It’s a list of names too long to fit on this page.
Each of whom was a person, with loved ones, dreams, and lives to be lived.

It’s a system that directly targets Black people and people of color
through sanctioned acts of violence; and structurally targets people of
color by intentionally cutting programs, diverting resources, and so much
more.

It’s a president who has encouraged police violence and is consistently
and openly fueling white supremacy in our nation. [3] A president who just
last night Tweeted an implication that protesters could be shot, implying
that he’d order the military to act as judge, jury, and executioner; using
wording that has historically stoked anti-Black racism. [4] A tweet so
racist and incendiary that Twitter took the rare step of putting a warning
label on it for “glorifying violence” and limited the public’s interaction
with it. [5] It’s this same president who has also dog-whistled white
supremacists, militias, and vigilantes time and time again. [ [link removed] ]

It’s police brutality, it’s an unjust criminial justice system, it’s the
wage gap that disproportionately harms moms of color the most, it’s
discrimination in the heatlhcare system that’s leading to more people of
color losing their lives to COVID-19 and to Black women dying three to
four times as often as white women while giving birth.

It’s white supremacist groups with guns marching on state capitols
protesting public health measures that scientists have prescribed to stop
the pandemic [ [link removed] ] -- and remaining unharmed and untouched by law
enforcement; while protestors of color demanding an end to police
brutality were met by tear gas and rubber bullets. [ [link removed] ]

It’s Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police saying, “I'm going to
tell them there's an African American man threatening my life," simply
because a local bird watcher, Christian Cooper, asked her to put her dog
back on a leash in a protected wildlife area where leashed dogs was the
rule. [ [link removed] ] We all know that calling the police on a person of color can be
a weaponized response. Amy knew.

[6]It’s too much. It must stop.

All of this is why we demand full accountability for what happened to
George Floyd. And why we will never give up demanding a system and a
country in which everyone can live and thrive.

[7]*Please add your name now, and share the link with everyone you know.

Read these facts and hold them close.

* Young Black men are, according to a ProPublica analysis, 21 times as
likely to be shot and killed by police as young white men-- and this
structural racism covers people of all genders. [ [link removed] ] 
* There is rampant discrimination in our criminal justice system. [ [link removed] ]
* Black women are eight times more likely than white women to be
incarcerated, and Latina women are four times more likely to be
incarcerated, according to Amnesty International.
* Evidence of this structural racism spans across the criminal justice
system. An analysis from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board
that found Black Missourians were 66% more likely in 2013 to be
stopped by police "even though the likelihood of finding contraband
was higher among whites." [ [link removed] ]

Let’s be clear. George’s death was not a mistake. [8]And the structural
racism and police brutality it represents MUST STOP. 

We, on the other hand, will never stop. The path towards justice is long,
it’s very hard, and at times it feels very bleak. But we continue to fight
for our children and our future. We won’t give up because we know we can
and must win.

Thank you.

Kristin, Monifa, dream, Karen, and the entire MomsRising Team

[1] [9]The New York Times

[2] [10]CNN

[3] [11]The Washington Post 

[4] [12]The New York Times 

[5] [ [link removed] ]CNN 

[6] [ [link removed] ]T[ [link removed] ]he Washington Post 

[7] [ [link removed] ]CDC.Gov

[8] [ [link removed] ]Time.com

[9] [ [link removed] ]CNN 

[10] [ [link removed] ]ProPublica and [ [link removed] ]CNN 

[11] [ [link removed] ]PrisonPolicy.org 

[12] [ [link removed] ]Colorlines.com

Image credit @arielsinnaha. Used with artist's permission.

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