People power in the streets, jazz music on the sheets.
“When they sign a blank check and send it over to Israel to kill Palestinian babies. You know what they say? ‘It’s business as usual!’ They look at us when we say ‘fund our schools. Fund our communities. ‘When we say ‘community control of the police.’ Guess what they tell us? ‘It’s business as usual!’”
“This staging facility was not designed to house detainees for even a night, yet there have been reported and confirmed cases of individuals held in the facility for more than a week,” said Nadiah Alyafai of the Arab American Action Network.
"He has threatened...to bring troops , federal troops, to Chicago. For what?"
“We actually had this protest planned before everything that went down in L.A…National Guard should never, ever, ever be called on people that are just protesting for a just and sane society,” said Flores.
“Where is justice? We were promised justice, but we have not received what we were promised.” Clements finished his remarks with a call to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, which passed the US House, but died in the Senate.
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