Jonathan Jackson: “With all of the slaughter and genocide and the human trafficking and all the other horrific things going on in the…”

We cannot accept a nation where a teenager’s bus ride home becomes a battleground, and where families are left to mourn preventable tragedies.

This bill is not a serious attempt to address crime; it is a regressive, discriminatory, and counterproductive piece of legislation that will only worsen the challenges facing our communities.

You must put one foot in the system and one foot outside. We must fight for change. We cannot adjust to the party; we must change the party. Got that right to vote, 18 years ago after much bloodshed and – and death, and yet 18 years later…

As we honor our mothers, we must also recognize that too many are being failed by a system that should protect them.