Cori Bush actually said...

"In my home State of Missouri, Black youth account for 15 percent of our youth population; yet, receive 27 percent of referrals to juvenile court."

"It is this fear of Black and Brown youth, long labeled super-predators, that has made jailing and sentencing them to life without parole too easy and too common."

"The stereotype that Black and Brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma."

"These zero-tolerance policies regularly do not take into account the social conditions in which children may live, unsafe and unstable housing; lead exposure, which is no fault of their own; cyclical ..."