Lucy McBath actually said...

"I am begging you to stand in the gap. I am begging you to speak up. I am begging you to be a part of solving the problems of all the young Black men and women in this country that die every single day..."

"We come to remember George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the many lives that have been lost to violence at the hands of those with a sworn duty to protect and serve us."

"I know exactly how you feel. I know your pain. I can't sit here and say, 'I can only imagine.' I know what you are going through."

"I grieve every day for these continued losses. I grieve as a mother who lost her own child to the very same violence that we're talking about today and tomorrow and next week and next month and next y..."