“It has always been about demand at the local level—understanding the experiences that people are having in their lives, which is local, and the ways that federal policy does and does not do, can either make things better or worse." - Maya Wiley of The Leadership Conference (fb)

Minneapolis and Louisville, where police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, will no longer have consent decrees with their police departments, sending the message to the people that police can violate their constitutional rights — and that this regime will protect police over people. The civil rights community will continue to call on state and local leaders to pursue their own reforms, hold police departments accountable, and protect their communities from police abuse. (fb)