Luis Gutiérrez: “Clearly we have more work to do to build trust between communities and law enforcement in our system of justice.”

If you really believe in democracy, justice, government by the consent of the governed, you must not hesitate any further or give any more excuses.

Congress must grant us the equal rights and equal responsibilities that we have earned with the blood of our veterans and the tears of their mothers, wives, children and families.

A majority of voters in Puerto Rico have requested statehood, now Congress must respond by officially offering it and allowing voters on the island to ratify their choice in a binding vote.

To turn around and tell voters to go back to the drawing board and re-define multiple other options which the majority has rejected three times in the last eight years in favor of statehood, would not only be insulting to us, but…