Melquiades Gagarin 🌹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷Konto zweryfikowane

For reference, #BlackLivesMatter was born in 2013 during Rep. Meng’s first term in Congress. -Eric Garner, July 7th, 2014 -Michael Brown, August 9th, 2014 -Sandra Bland, July 13, 2015 -Philando Castile, July 6, 2016 -Breonna Taylor, March 13th, 2020 -George Floyd, May 25th, 2020

These are only a small sliver of the names of Black lives lost over the years at the hands of police violence during @Grace4NYs tenure in Congress. She signed onto these bills, which had been introduced long before George Floyd sparked an awakening, only a few days ago.

This is probably why she only has a score of 18% from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. You can see for yourself how many of the bills they support that she doesn’t. https://cqrcengage.com/cj/app/person/16772?0 …

During those years, I was working on advancing racial justice and combating systemic racism. I worked alongside, and under the leadership of, justice impacted communities to remove barriers to higher ed for currently and formerly incarcerated folks.

Our coalition succeeded in introducing the REAL Act in Congress, which would restore Pell access for incarcerated students, undoing an original sin of the ’94 Crime Bill. Rep. Grace Meng has still not signed on to support it.

Given what is happening in our country right now, we cannot afford to re-elect a politician when we need a reformer.  Especially a politician who is obviously trying to obfuscate their record. It’s dishonest. She’s no leader on Criminal Justice reform.  We need accountability.