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."

"We treat trauma with more 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 ..."