Demand Justice for Adam Toledo
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Dear Friend,
First, we hope you are doing whatever you need to do to take care of
yourself during this time. As moms, parents, and caregivers, it is never
easy to bear witness to the unending police violence and it is
particularly difficult when it involves children. We know and hold that
too often the invisible victims of police killings are mothers and the
family members of those whose lives are taken too soon and under such
violent circumstances. What we are clear on is that this is an emergency.
No family should have to mourn a loss like that of 13-year-old student
Adam Toledo.
[ [link removed] ]Stand with Adam Toledo’s family and take action to end police violence.
He was a child, one of many children killed by police whose families still
await justice. Families like that of Aiyana Stanley-Jones who was just 7
years old, Tamir Rice who was only 12, Michael Brown who was 18, and
Laquan McDonald who was 17. No one should ever be murdered by police, and
this rings especially true when we consider children.
[ [link removed] ]→ The police officer who killed Adam Toledo (a beloved son, a child who
was just 13-years-old, and a student at Gary Elementary School) must be
arrested and charged for this crime, now.
Join MomsRising as we stand with Adam Toledo’s family in demanding
justice. The continued violence against Black and Latinx communities must
stop. That the video’s release in Chicago happened during the trial of
former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, as
police officer Kimberly Potter was being charged in the fatal shooting of
20-year-old Daunte Wright, and as more months tick by without
accountability or justice for the police killing of Breonna Taylor
underscores the urgent need for change. Not only are Black, and Latinx
people forced to live in constant fear of police violence within their own
communities, they’re also forced to relive their trauma on the news and
social media everyday.
[ [link removed] ]The epidemic of police violence must be stopped. Take Action Now!
We, and especially our elected leaders, must immediately invest in
communities and shift resources away from policing, where a deadly mix of
white supremacy and violence remains unchecked. It is clear that the
current system cannot be reformed, that additional training resources are
not the solution, and that body cameras cannot fix an institution founded
to enforce the enslavement of Black people and which continues to enact
terror in Black and Brown communities.
Moving forward, the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Mayor Lori
Lightfoot must be held accountable not only for killing this child, but
also for covering up the murder for more than two weeks as they refused to
release the officer’s body camera video and a false narrative was spread.
[ [link removed] ]→ The police officer who killed Adam Toledo must be immediately
arrested and charged for their crime.
Only when there is real accountability, when Black and Brown people feel
safe in their communities, when resources are used to create the schools,
services, and care we all need, will there be real change. A radical
reimagining of public safety is needed. This must include transformative
change, real police accountability, and investments that address the root
causes of violence and foster community-based alternatives to policing and
incarceration.
AND, we will continue to hold elected leaders accountable for enacting key
components of the BREATHE Act to divest from policing and defund the
continued assault on Black and Brown life, and invest in communities.[1]
Key Components of the BREATHE Act include;
1. Divesting Federal Resources from Incarceration and Policing & Ending
Criminal Legal System Harms;
2. Investing in New Approaches to Community Safety Utilizing Funding
Incentives;
3. Allocating New Money to Build Healthy, Sustainable & Equitable
Communities for All People;
4. Holding Political Leaders Accountable & Enhancing Self-Determination
of Black Communities.
The moms of America know it’s never okay for police to murder. We demand
America’s elected leaders put an end to the days when police can act with
impunity, violate rights, and take the lives of Black and Brown people.
[ [link removed] ]→ We demand the police officer who killed Gary Elementary School
student Adam Toledo be immediately arrested and charged for their crime.
Police violence against Black and Brown communities must be stopped. So
please share this action link with friends and family-- and on social
media. And if you are in a community where conversations about the need to
end police violence against Black and Brown people don’t normally happen,
then please spark those conversations. Polling is showing that
conversation by conversation, change is happening.
Let us never give up, let us keep rising, let us help make it so no family
member and no child is ever a victim of police violence ever again.
With gratitude for your engagement and continued action,
- Amber, Aryan, Beatriz, Beth, Casey, Christina, Claudia, Diarra, Diana,
Donna, dream, Elyssa, Felicia, Gloria, Hanna, Jessica, Jordan, Joy, Julia,
Karen, Keisha, Kelle, Kristin, Linda, Lisa, Lucrecer, Maggie, Marysol,
Monifa, Nadia, Nancy, Nate, Nina, Ruby, Ruth, Sara, Shanette, Sheila,
Sili, Sue Anne, Tasmiha, Taylor, Tina, Tola, and Xochitl
References:
[1] [ [link removed] ]The Breathe Act
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