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“It feels like open season on
black men in America, and I’m outraged.”

I’ve said these words so many times before,
John, and I am so sick, tired and
drained from having to keep repeating these same words, time
after time after time!

Jacob Blake reportedly had a
knife in his proximity, so he was shot seven times in the back by
Kenosha police while officers from that same agency were later
captured on film condoning and encouraging Kyle Rittenhouse and
his vigilante cohorts to stalk around Kenosha while openly
brandishing military-style assault weapons of mass destruction.

How can we have this disparity in
treatment between white and Black Americans? Why do we have a
broken system of policing that unloads shot after shot into the
back of a Black man trying to walk away, but does nothing to stop
a 17-year-old white vigilante from parading around with an
assault rifle after killing two people and badly wounding
another?

In Kenosha, the situation is
helped by a racist sheriff who has said, “Some people aren’t
worth saving” and that, “We need to build warehouses, to put
these people into it and lock them away for the rest of their
lives.” But this situation also goes far beyond Kenosha. In
police departments across this nation, we see Black people being
shot in the back, and treated as if their lives don’t matter.

I’ve been leading the fight for
real police reform even before the Ferguson murder of Michael
Brown in 2014. I’ve introduced legislation to demilitarize the
police and take away weapons of war from them, and cosponsored
legislation that would end qualified immunity, and that would
hold police officers criminally responsible for their actions.
These proposals made their way into the George Floyd Justice in
Policing Act — which the Senate still refuses to pass.

We need real change,
John. And we also need to combat the
radicalization and alternative-fact world being promoted by
President Trump and Fox News. They tell people it’s perfectly
fine to do whatever you want — that you can get away with it —
and that reckless messaging inspires vigilantes like Rittenhouse
to take to the street with assault rifles, ready to kill.

We have the power to change this. Through voting. Through
activism. Through pushing legislators and legislation. It’s not
an easy struggle, but we will continue to push to bend the moral
arc of the universe toward justice.

Thank you for being in this fight with me.

In solidarity,

Hank

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