Summer Lee: “We care about Puerto Rico as we do the Virgin Islands. I can't name one politician that might have come in and been…”

Daphy’s death was preventable and is the result of a violent system that cages people, surveils them, abandons them, dehumanizes them in life, and smears them in death to escape accountability.

It exemplifies the battle for what the Democratic Party can be or might be next.

No one should be above the law — not princes, not elected officials, not wealthy billionaires — and it was the government itself that failed these women.

It has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the crime of enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.