Maria Cantwell: “I have talked to many Washingtonians, and they are very worried about what has transpired in Minnesota. They are very…”

“I have talked to many Washingtonians, and they are very worried about what has transpired in Minnesota. They are very worried about what has transpired in Minnesota because they think that someone has lost their life that didn't need to lose their life, and they think that the President of the United States, instead of basically creating a system where that kind of overreach of power would be investigated, instead he is basically accusing the victim here--and basically, really, even attacking Second Amendment rights. So I am here to join my colleagues to say, what are we going to do to fix this system? What are we going to do to make sure that tragedies like this don't happen and that we investigate the truth--not make up something about the situation minutes after it has happened? I say this because my State has struggled with these issues of justice, particularly civil liberties and the civil rights of individuals.”