'Senators, some of you may never know what it is to wonder whether your child could be shot by the very people purportedly tasked with protecting their life,' wrote Tina Knowles-Lawson.
Dear Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer:
Some may say this shift is nothing short of miraculous; we say this is the result of a people-powered movement. In Milwaukee, voters stood in line for hours at one of only five polling places, down from 180, after failing to receive absentee ballots in the mail, and it is estimated that more than 70 voters contracted COVID-19 on Election Day.
And Tuesday, voters in Louisville, Kentucky, a community of 600,000 that is fighting for justice for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, opened only one polling place.
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