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A message from League of United Latin American Citizens

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LULAC Statement: We Stand United in Action with Black Lives Matter
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LULAC stands united in action with Black Lives Matter

As the oldest and largest national Latino civil rights organization, LULAC is
deeply outraged by the long and troubling history of police brutality in the
United States and which recent cases have once again awakened our social
consciousness. Not long ago, anger was similarly erupting around the deaths of
Eric Gardner, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, and Sandra Bland, their lives ended by
law enforcement. Then, a few days ago, we witnessed George Floyd killed in the
custody of Minneapolis police. He did not deserve to die at the hands of officers
who took an oath to protect the community.

LULAC stands united in action with Black Lives Matter. The pain and sheer
injustice that Black communities experience day in and day out cannot be ignored
any longer. It must stop now! At a time when there is a call to “dominate” our
communities coming from the highest elected office, we pledge to support Black
Lives Matter in the quest for justice. Latinos also have suffered at the hands of
police abuse from Santos Rodriguez, Joe Campos Torres, to Mike Ramos who was shot
and killed two weeks ago in Austin, Texas.

LULAC rises to join in steadfast solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of
people across our country demanding fundamental reforms to our law enforcement
system. We stand as one with this movement in strong agreement that we must
change how law enforcement is carried out in America. Policy interventions are
urgently needed to stop excessive use of deadly force, unwarranted physical force
to subdue individuals, discriminatory patterns of arrest, selective
non-enforcement of the law, the “code of silence,” lack of accountability, and
brutal crowd control tactics which are all part of abusive policing.

LULAC stands with Black Lives Matter and will fight for justice, standing
shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, until true social equity and Constitutionally
protected equality is reached. LULAC supports and believes in peaceful protest
and exercising the right to civil disobedience while adhering to the principles
of non-violence. We stand united in dismantling oppression until every black man,
woman, and child in America can live free without fear.

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and
oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans
and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000
councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and
advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of
today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org [ [link removed] ] .







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