Maxine Waters actually said...

"The current sentencing requirements have failed to accomplish the legislative intent of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act."

"We are wasting precious government resources on low level drug offenders."

"Moreover the act has had a disparate impact on the African American community, resulting in the incarceration of a disproportionate number of African Americans often for many, many years."

"We want them to take leadership again from the African American community."