[1]Ayanna Pressley
Content Warning: This email discusses a murder
Despite today’s guilty verdict, this system can never deliver true justice
for George Floyd and his family. True justice would be George Floyd, alive
today, at home with his fiancé, children, and siblings.
The truth is that we never expected justice from this trial. We demanded
accountability. Today, a jury delivered accountability and Derek Chauvin
will face consequences for his actions.
To be clear, the legal system in America remains deeply unjust. No one
should die the way George Floyd did. A person’s murder should not have to
garner global attention to result in accountability.
We can’t bring George Floyd back, but we can — and we must — legislate to
deliver the critical resources our communities need to be freed from the
endless loop of trauma we are experiencing daily.
Our communities have been profiled. We have been surveilled. We have been
brutalized. We have been murdered. And now we need precise, intentional
policies to stop the cycle of trauma and death.
I will continue my work to end qualified immunity — the fundamentally
unjust legal doctrine that has allowed so many who commit egregious acts
of state-sanctioned violence to evade accountability. I will also continue
legislating to dismantle the systems that create the conditions for police
brutality and, instead, secure resources for the trauma-informed,
community-based solutions our people demand, deserve, and require.
Centuries of institutionalized oppression will not be undone without
sustained action, and I remain undeterred. I am holding the Floyd family
and city of Minneapolis close tonight.
In solidarity,
Ayanna
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