'2020 could be one of those great years in American history of profound upheaval and tremendous advancement of change,' says CoryBooker
Senator Cory Booker on June 2, after introducing a resolution to condemn President Trump for tear-gassing peaceful protesters at the White House. Photo: CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag In recent days, New Jersey senator Cory Booker has been a prominent voice standing with protesters and responding to the nationwide outrage over George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
We are in a raw period, and this moment has so just torn up the soil of our souls, as I’ve been saying. And the question is what’s going to come from this. And I think that there’s an unwillingness — I feel it personally — to accept anything less than real substantive change. That was a moment where, again, it was reflective of the tactics of the generation past. It was a depraved abuse of power that further ignited the will of not only grassroots protesters but many of us who are fighting for change here in Congress.
And I think that the wonderful thing about this that I’m seeing now, that I’m feeling now is two things. One, the inclusiveness and the diversity of the activists.
So I’m very inspired by, No. 1, the broadness of the coalition of people willing to work on this comprehensive bill with us, and that the issues of qualified immunity, Section 242 on the criminal side, all the way to a bill I introduced years ago, about just collecting data on use of force, all of these things, there is definitely a moving of these ideas into the center of thought in circles in Congress. And I just feel like this is a moment of profound possibility in building out coalitions.
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