A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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People For Member,

While our community breathed a collective sigh of relief at yesterday’s
guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, the
number of Black lives ended by the police in America continues to increase
before our very eyes. Those lost now include Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old
Black girl shot and killed by police yesterday in Columbus, OH … just over
a week after another police shooting in Brooklyn Center, MN took the life
of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a “routine” traffic stop…

This cannot be allowed to continue.

Join People For and our stellar panel of experts today at 4:00 PM ET (3:00
PM CT / 2:00 PM MT / 1:00 PM PT) for an important discussion on the George
Floyd verdict and the future of justice in America and how we need to
reimagine public safety and policing.

[ [link removed]- ]RSVP now to join us and you can submit a question for a chance to have
it answered live by the panelists! >>

Learn about innovative approaches cities and towns can take to reimagine
public safety – the plan being championed by one of our panelists, Ithaca,
NY Mayor Svante Myrick – as well as how we can chart a path forward as a
movement to solve one of the worst and most persistent crises faced by our
nation and our communities.

We hope to have you join us,

Zach

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People For Member,

Tonight, we pause with a deep sense of relief that the officer who
murdered George Floyd will be held accountable for his actions. For
countless others whose lives were taken as a result of police violence,
their perpetrators have evaded accountability for their actions – and we
must continue pushing forward in the fight towards justice.

[ [link removed]- ]Join People For’s Ben Jealous, Mayor Svante Myrick, noted civil rights
leader and historian Mary Frances Berry, and MoveOn's Rahna Epting April
21 at 4:00 PM ET (3:00 PM CT, 2:00 PM MT, 1:00 PM PT), for a discussion on
the George Floyd verdict and the future of justice in America >>

Now that the Trump Administration is gone, we have new opportunities to
pursue justice that previously would not have been possible. Attorney
General Merrick Garland has already taken steps to address police
misconduct, just last week rescinding a Trump-era memo that limited the
use of ‘consent decrees’ – a tool to hold police departments accountable –
but more can and must be done.

We must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act at the federal
level, which will not solve every problem but is a good start. And we must
do the hard work of fundamentally changing policing at the local level,
which is happening across the country from the state level to the city and
county level, where we are seeing some innovative solutions proposed.

While we continue mourning the loss of George Floyd, and for the many
families who have lost loved ones to police violence, we must strengthen
our commitment to rooting out systemic racism in our justice system, so
that no family ever needs to grieve again as George Floyd’s family is
grieving now.

Anything less will only allow these acts of violence to continue.

[ [link removed]- ]Join us as we process today’s verdict and how it shapes the trajectory
of our fight towards justice >>

Thanks for all that you do.

In solidarity,

Zach, People For the American Way

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