[ [link removed] ]Summer Lee for Congress

Content warning: This email discusses police violence and murder.

John,

Tyre Nichols should be alive today.

On Sunday, I joined CNN's State of the Union to discuss the horrific
murder of Tyre by Memphis police officers, the pain my community is
experiencing, and how we move forward. You can watch the panel interview
[ [link removed] ]here, or I've included my message below:

[ [link removed] ]Summer on CNN

In Pittsburgh, this is a case we've seen before. We've seen families cry
out in Minneapolis, Louisville, Baltimore, Ferguson, Staten Island, and so
many cities, now including Memphis. Reliving this is not unusual, but it
is painful every single time and never gets easier.

We know what makes communities safe. But every single time we stop short
of investing in communities that have been underfunded. The weaponization
of the term 'public safety' has meant that instead of funding public
schools, making sure Black and brown kids have somewhere safe to go after
school, and creating good jobs, we've poured billions into an increasing
militarization of our police force. The result? Black people are not safe
driving home or in their homes.

This is our time to look deeply to look into our culture and within
ourselves and ask why we create policies that force Black and brown
communities to relive this pain and trauma over and over.

Public safety does not begin or end with policing. In order to keep
Americans safe, Congress must act to end police violence, abolish the
carceral state, pass reparations, and invest in Black communities and
power.

Protecting Black people from state violence should not be partisan or even
political. It should be the demand of every American.

And to those who say we need to quiet down or tone police our call to save
Black lives, I remember vividly the day during the summer of 2020 when I
ate tear gas as the Pittsburgh police tried to cut our movement off at the
knees. We won't be quiet — police violence is radical, not the movement to
end it.

In solidarity,

Summer


 


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