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.
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.
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.
Thanks for all that you do.
In solidarity,
Zach, People For the American Way
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