November 8, 2024 • 16 mins
Host Vanessa Tyler discusses "The Mothers Of The Movement" - a group of women connected by tragedy; each member has family who died as a result of police action or by gun violence. These civil rights activists hosted an emotional panel at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference earlier this year in Washington D.C.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They gave birth to the babies, little brown bundles of joy.
Like any mother, they prayed their child would have a
bright future and would make a mark on this world,
but not like this.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I know my son was a sacrificial lamb, and I
am going to hold up his name until the day
that I die.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
When they gather, there is no forces powerful. They're called
the mothers of the movement.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
There has been almost two thousand black kids that have
been healed by the police since George Floyd, and that
includes my son, Tyrene Nicholas.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, those mothers whose children are the names we've been saying.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Every day's March thirteenth. To me, I don't know how
to move past, and I don't know how to act
as if it never happened, because what they did was
murder my child, and she didn't deserve that.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The mother is of the movement now on Blackland.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And now as a brown person, you just feel so invisible.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Where we're from. Brothers and sisters, are welcome you to
this joyful day.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
We celebrate freedom.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Where we are, I know someone's heard something and where
we're going.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We the people means all the people.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
The Black Information Network presents Blackland with your host Vanessa Tyler.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't know if anyone if you have ever lost
a child, but this is the hardest thing in the
world to have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Recently, we caught up with the mothers in Washington, DC
when I was at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative
Conference during a panel discussion shot by The Black Information
Network's Darnie Davis. Was emotional, it was raw. It was
the reality every black parent fears criminal.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Justice in black and white.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
And until we get accountability for this discriminatory, racist criminal
justice system in Singamn County, we rebuke you in the
name of Jesus. Until we get accountability for this discriminatory,
(02:30):
racist criminal justice system in the state of Illinois, we
rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We all know the voice of civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Reverend L. Sharpton has nicknamed him Black America's Attorney General,
and Reverend Sharpton is right every case of brutality. Crump
is there before the camera's speaking up, speaking out and
demanding justice.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
As Sawyer Massa said with her final words before she
wished in the face, before we get accountability for this discriminatory, racist,
criminal justice system in the United States of America. We
rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Crump quoting Sonia Massey, a black woman shot dead point
blank by the white sheriff's deputy in Sangamon County, Illinois,
after she called them she thought she heard an intruder.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It sounds like somebody was banging on the side of
my house. No oh, could y'all come and see.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Here is the release bodycam from the deputies who responded
to her home as Crump just said her final words,
I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Now, former
Deputy Sean Grayson, who is white, took that as a
threat because she was standing near a stove with hot
water boiling, calling out the name of Jesus, rebuke you
(03:57):
in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Start.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
My name is Shaddy and Massy and I am the
cousin slash sister of Sia Massey. Just a little bit
about Sya. She was not the person that y'all watched
on that video. That was not her. She was a
lovable person. She had she was a child of God.
She went to church, she went to work, she took
(04:34):
care of her two children, and this was her daily life.
She didn't do anything else.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Sonya's cousin, Shadeer, spoke on the panel while Sonya's mother
had donea sat in the audience.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Siya was reaching out for help what she called nine
one one that day she called for help. She was
never violent, She was never raised her voice, She was
never hyper like she Siya so Nya, she only needed
your assistance.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
She should still be here.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
She's not here because now former Deputy Sean Grayson shot her.
Come to find out, he was at six different departments
in four years, reportedly had two DUIs, and by all accounts,
shouldn't have been hired.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
He had all the training he needed, he just didn't
use it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That Sheriff Jack Campbell speaking on CBS News, he came
under fire himself for hiring Grayson in the first place.
As a result of that hiring decision, Sheriff Campbell forced out,
retiring early. In interviews, he tried to explain how in
the world he would allow a person like Grayson to
carry a badge and a gun.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
This was a rogue individual that acted outside the scope
of his authority. He's been arrested and he will pay
the price Well, the.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
White former deputy. He is paying the price. He's charged
with murdering Massy.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good afternoon everyone. My name is Roba Wales. I'm the
mother of Tyree Nick.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
When we recorded this panel, the cops who beat her
son were on trial in federal court.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right now, there's a trial going on, a federal trial
being held in the city of Memphis for three of
the police officers that murdered my son. I took the
time away from that trial to come here and speak
to you today.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Five black officers were on the scene in Memphis when
her son was brutalized. Two took a plea And although
they were black, many feel they were all repping the blue.
But in a way, the blue didn't save these cops
from being black. Sounds twisted, but as Crump reminds us,
black is always considered above all in America.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
My heart is just so broke about this.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Five black police officers killed Tyree Nichols represented up in
five days.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
They had been.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Terminated, charged, arrested in five days. Mss Rovon Wells will
tell you she has a sister, Mismana, who is Ronald
Green's mother in Louisiana, very similar Five white officers killed
(07:12):
Ronald Green on video just as horrific as they did
Tyree Nichols. Those officers took two years to be arrested,
and we just learned yesterday that none of them are
going to.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Be charged with the killing. The only hope she.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Got right now is that they might get convicted of
the conspiracy because they are all lied about what to
how to cover it up.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
But it's criminal justice in black and white.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The federal jury did return her verdict, giving the three
cops on trial a mixed bag. None convicted of the
highest count, depriving Nichols of his civil rights causing death.
They were all found guilty of obstruction charges. Still al
must stand trial for murdering state court for the night
a simple traffic stop turned to this. The body cam
(08:11):
video America saw them pummeling Tyree as he tries to
negotiate for his life.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You guys a lot that.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
When my son was on his way home, he was
coming from a park. He liked to watch the sun sets.
And when he came, when he when on his way home,
those five police officers pulled him over, yanked him out
of his car, and beat the hell out of him
for nothing, and my son is not here today.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I really don't want to talk about what I've done,
because clearly it wasn't enough, because even after Brehanna died,
we still had Tyree Nicholas and Siya Massey. But what
I do know is that we have to continue to
stand together and come collectively because these people are killing us.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Tamika Palmer says she feels like she's living in that
popular Deadly movie.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I say all the time that I feel like I'm
a part of the hunger game, like I'm waiting for
them to come and find me and hunt me.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Down, gun her down, just like Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Police
gunned down her twenty six year old daughter, Breonna Taylor
back on March thirteenth, twenty twenty, in a botched police raid.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Every day's March thirteenth.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
To me.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I don't know how to move past, and I don't
know how to act as if it never happened, because
what they did was murder my child, and she didn't
deserve that. She didn't deserve that, and she was where
she needed to be, living like she should be living.
She hit everything right. She worked for the City of Louisville.
(09:57):
She was an EMT, she worked in two different hospitals,
and she would go out of her way for anybody.
I don't know a person who can tell you a
bad story about Brianna. I don't know how to tell
you a bad story. Even as a kid. She just
never was a problematic person. And for her to die
the way she did was sane to me. And then
(10:18):
to have a justice system say her life doesn't matter
does not sit well with me. And if her life
doesn't matter, none of our lives are matter.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And for all these years, none of the cops at
the scene ever charged, arrested, convicted for Brionna Taylor's death. Then,
finally breaking news, after four years, one of the Louisville
(10:53):
cops at the scene, Brett Hankinson, was convicted by a
federal jury of violating Brionna Taylor's civil rights. Standing outside
a Kentucky courthouse, Tamika Palmer thanks God and the jury,
thank God that.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
He coverage closures who chose.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
To do the right thing to Briana deo their vesice.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Also on this panel assembled at the Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation Legislative Conference, some of the mothers who have been
a part of this sad sorority for a while. Trayvon
Martin's mother Sabrina Fulton, her seventeen year old son killed
in twenty twelve by a neighborhood watchman. Also Wanda Jones
mother rahmaud Arbury, remember her son was murdered by three
(11:35):
white men when he was simply jogging in their South
Georgia community. Also Felonius Floyd, brother of George Floyd. We
will never forget literally watching him die as white Minneapolis
cop Derek Chauvin kneeled the life out of him.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
All right, what's your name?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
George Dorn Perry Floyd.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I don't know what's going These mothers say when they
gather with their shared paid they also talk about the
happy times before their children became hashtags.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And we come together, We embrace each other, we encourage
each other, we enlighten each other, and we have like
just a fun time together. Sometime we don't even talk
about the tragedy. We talk about how silly our children was,
what they liked, what sports they like, you know, just
to encourage mothers, you know, not to dwell on the tragedy.
(12:31):
But let's look at the bright side of who they
really was.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Gwyn Carr's son, Eric Garner, died when a New York
City cop put him in a deadly chokehold. Garner told
the cop so many times he could not Breathethdge Carr
told the crowd she demanded change by putting extreme pressure
(12:56):
on then New York Governor Mario Cuomo. In protest, she
and support or is even created makeshift coffins and took
it to his office.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
We didn't know what was going to happen. We stepped
out the box. We could have been arrested or whatever.
We didn't care. So anyway, when he had the press
conference with us, he says, well, if my bill is
not passed in in session, I'll give you all a
special prosecute.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Eventually he did. A special prosecutor was granted.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So you know, with that, we got the special prosecutor
with what happens is when a child or a person
is killed unjustly, unarmed, it takes it out of the
hands of the local DA and puts it in the
hands of the state attorney general. And we got that passed.
(13:46):
And you know it only was for the state, but
you know that was a step in the right direction
and also just working for over five years, I got
the error guarding the anti chocol bill pass.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
These mothers are not just about mourning, they are about action,
and right now they demand the George Floyd Justice and
Policing Bill pass. It would do many things like create
a national registry to expose a CoP's working history so
those forced out of one department don't get hired somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I am not going to let his name be
in vain, so I talk about him everywhere I go.
And we have a foundation with the acronym of his name,
the Eric Initiative Foundation, and the Eric stands for eliminating
racism and inequality collectively, that's what his name stands for.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So A's Congress, we need to pass this George Floyd
bill because this should not be another child to lose
their life at the hands of a police officer.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
The blood of these.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Children is on Congress's hands. And I invite Congress to
sit down with each and every one of us and
tell us why they're not passing this bill because they
don't have to worry about their kids not coming home.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Exact Trayvon Martin's mother Sabrina Fulton wrapped up the panel
with the most important thing any of us could do
to get things done.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
I want to keep this short and sweet because I
know time is of the essence. So I want to
say to you, continue to apply pressure, do your part,
and get out and vote. Now, go be great.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
As the mothers gathered to go, taking their pain and
their strength and the heartbreak only a mother could feel.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So thank each and every one of your for coming
and for listening to what we have to say.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I took account of their number. It's as if they
could feel there will be more in the membership the
next time they gather.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The thing about the mothers of the movie, about any
of us sitting up here. It keeps growing, This stage
keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I'm Vanessa Tyler. Join me next time on Blackland. I
would love to get your feedback at Vanessa Tyler one
on Instagram. Remember to like and subscribe. A new episode
of Blackland drops every Friday.
They gave birth to the babies, little brown bundles of joy.
Like any mother, they prayed their child would have a
bright future and would make a mark on this world,
but not like this.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I know my son was a sacrificial lamb, and I
am going to hold up his name until the day
that I die.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
When they gather, there is no forces powerful. They're called
the mothers of the movement.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
There has been almost two thousand black kids that have
been healed by the police since George Floyd, and that
includes my son, Tyrene Nicholas.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, those mothers whose children are the names we've been saying.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Every day's March thirteenth. To me, I don't know how
to move past, and I don't know how to act
as if it never happened, because what they did was
murder my child, and she didn't deserve that.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The mother is of the movement now on Blackland.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And now as a brown person, you just feel so invisible.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Where we're from. Brothers and sisters, are welcome you to
this joyful day.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
We celebrate freedom.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Where we are, I know someone's heard something and where
we're going.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We the people means all the people.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
The Black Information Network presents Blackland with your host Vanessa Tyler.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't know if anyone if you have ever lost
a child, but this is the hardest thing in the
world to have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Recently, we caught up with the mothers in Washington, DC
when I was at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative
Conference during a panel discussion shot by The Black Information
Network's Darnie Davis. Was emotional, it was raw. It was
the reality every black parent fears criminal.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Justice in black and white.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
And until we get accountability for this discriminatory, racist criminal
justice system in Singamn County, we rebuke you in the
name of Jesus. Until we get accountability for this discriminatory,
(02:30):
racist criminal justice system in the state of Illinois, we
rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We all know the voice of civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Reverend L. Sharpton has nicknamed him Black America's Attorney General,
and Reverend Sharpton is right every case of brutality. Crump
is there before the camera's speaking up, speaking out and
demanding justice.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
As Sawyer Massa said with her final words before she
wished in the face, before we get accountability for this discriminatory, racist,
criminal justice system in the United States of America. We
rebuke you in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Crump quoting Sonia Massey, a black woman shot dead point
blank by the white sheriff's deputy in Sangamon County, Illinois,
after she called them she thought she heard an intruder.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It sounds like somebody was banging on the side of
my house. No oh, could y'all come and see.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Here is the release bodycam from the deputies who responded
to her home as Crump just said her final words,
I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Now, former
Deputy Sean Grayson, who is white, took that as a
threat because she was standing near a stove with hot
water boiling, calling out the name of Jesus, rebuke you
(03:57):
in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Start.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
My name is Shaddy and Massy and I am the
cousin slash sister of Sia Massey. Just a little bit
about Sya. She was not the person that y'all watched
on that video. That was not her. She was a
lovable person. She had she was a child of God.
She went to church, she went to work, she took
(04:34):
care of her two children, and this was her daily life.
She didn't do anything else.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Sonya's cousin, Shadeer, spoke on the panel while Sonya's mother
had donea sat in the audience.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Siya was reaching out for help what she called nine
one one that day she called for help. She was
never violent, She was never raised her voice, She was
never hyper like she Siya so Nya, she only needed
your assistance.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
She should still be here.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
She's not here because now former Deputy Sean Grayson shot her.
Come to find out, he was at six different departments
in four years, reportedly had two DUIs, and by all accounts,
shouldn't have been hired.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
He had all the training he needed, he just didn't
use it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That Sheriff Jack Campbell speaking on CBS News, he came
under fire himself for hiring Grayson in the first place.
As a result of that hiring decision, Sheriff Campbell forced out,
retiring early. In interviews, he tried to explain how in
the world he would allow a person like Grayson to
carry a badge and a gun.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
This was a rogue individual that acted outside the scope
of his authority. He's been arrested and he will pay
the price Well, the.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
White former deputy. He is paying the price. He's charged
with murdering Massy.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good afternoon everyone. My name is Roba Wales. I'm the
mother of Tyree Nick.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
When we recorded this panel, the cops who beat her
son were on trial in federal court.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right now, there's a trial going on, a federal trial
being held in the city of Memphis for three of
the police officers that murdered my son. I took the
time away from that trial to come here and speak
to you today.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Five black officers were on the scene in Memphis when
her son was brutalized. Two took a plea And although
they were black, many feel they were all repping the blue.
But in a way, the blue didn't save these cops
from being black. Sounds twisted, but as Crump reminds us,
black is always considered above all in America.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
My heart is just so broke about this.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Five black police officers killed Tyree Nichols represented up in
five days.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
They had been.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Terminated, charged, arrested in five days. Mss Rovon Wells will
tell you she has a sister, Mismana, who is Ronald
Green's mother in Louisiana, very similar Five white officers killed
(07:12):
Ronald Green on video just as horrific as they did
Tyree Nichols. Those officers took two years to be arrested,
and we just learned yesterday that none of them are
going to.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Be charged with the killing. The only hope she.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Got right now is that they might get convicted of
the conspiracy because they are all lied about what to
how to cover it up.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
But it's criminal justice in black and white.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The federal jury did return her verdict, giving the three
cops on trial a mixed bag. None convicted of the
highest count, depriving Nichols of his civil rights causing death.
They were all found guilty of obstruction charges. Still al
must stand trial for murdering state court for the night
a simple traffic stop turned to this. The body cam
(08:11):
video America saw them pummeling Tyree as he tries to
negotiate for his life.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You guys a lot that.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
When my son was on his way home, he was
coming from a park. He liked to watch the sun sets.
And when he came, when he when on his way home,
those five police officers pulled him over, yanked him out
of his car, and beat the hell out of him
for nothing, and my son is not here today.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I really don't want to talk about what I've done,
because clearly it wasn't enough, because even after Brehanna died,
we still had Tyree Nicholas and Siya Massey. But what
I do know is that we have to continue to
stand together and come collectively because these people are killing us.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Tamika Palmer says she feels like she's living in that
popular Deadly movie.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I say all the time that I feel like I'm
a part of the hunger game, like I'm waiting for
them to come and find me and hunt me.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Down, gun her down, just like Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Police
gunned down her twenty six year old daughter, Breonna Taylor
back on March thirteenth, twenty twenty, in a botched police raid.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Every day's March thirteenth.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
To me.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I don't know how to move past, and I don't
know how to act as if it never happened, because
what they did was murder my child, and she didn't
deserve that. She didn't deserve that, and she was where
she needed to be, living like she should be living.
She hit everything right. She worked for the City of Louisville.
(09:57):
She was an EMT, she worked in two different hospitals,
and she would go out of her way for anybody.
I don't know a person who can tell you a
bad story about Brianna. I don't know how to tell
you a bad story. Even as a kid. She just
never was a problematic person. And for her to die
the way she did was sane to me. And then
(10:18):
to have a justice system say her life doesn't matter
does not sit well with me. And if her life
doesn't matter, none of our lives are matter.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And for all these years, none of the cops at
the scene ever charged, arrested, convicted for Brionna Taylor's death. Then,
finally breaking news, after four years, one of the Louisville
(10:53):
cops at the scene, Brett Hankinson, was convicted by a
federal jury of violating Brionna Taylor's civil rights. Standing outside
a Kentucky courthouse, Tamika Palmer thanks God and the jury,
thank God that.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
He coverage closures who chose.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
To do the right thing to Briana deo their vesice.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Also on this panel assembled at the Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation Legislative Conference, some of the mothers who have been
a part of this sad sorority for a while. Trayvon
Martin's mother Sabrina Fulton, her seventeen year old son killed
in twenty twelve by a neighborhood watchman. Also Wanda Jones
mother rahmaud Arbury, remember her son was murdered by three
(11:35):
white men when he was simply jogging in their South
Georgia community. Also Felonius Floyd, brother of George Floyd. We
will never forget literally watching him die as white Minneapolis
cop Derek Chauvin kneeled the life out of him.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
All right, what's your name?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
George Dorn Perry Floyd.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I don't know what's going These mothers say when they
gather with their shared paid they also talk about the
happy times before their children became hashtags.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And we come together, We embrace each other, we encourage
each other, we enlighten each other, and we have like
just a fun time together. Sometime we don't even talk
about the tragedy. We talk about how silly our children was,
what they liked, what sports they like, you know, just
to encourage mothers, you know, not to dwell on the tragedy.
(12:31):
But let's look at the bright side of who they
really was.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Gwyn Carr's son, Eric Garner, died when a New York
City cop put him in a deadly chokehold. Garner told
the cop so many times he could not Breathethdge Carr
told the crowd she demanded change by putting extreme pressure
(12:56):
on then New York Governor Mario Cuomo. In protest, she
and support or is even created makeshift coffins and took
it to his office.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
We didn't know what was going to happen. We stepped
out the box. We could have been arrested or whatever.
We didn't care. So anyway, when he had the press
conference with us, he says, well, if my bill is
not passed in in session, I'll give you all a
special prosecute.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Eventually he did. A special prosecutor was granted.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So you know, with that, we got the special prosecutor
with what happens is when a child or a person
is killed unjustly, unarmed, it takes it out of the
hands of the local DA and puts it in the
hands of the state attorney general. And we got that passed.
(13:46):
And you know it only was for the state, but
you know that was a step in the right direction
and also just working for over five years, I got
the error guarding the anti chocol bill pass.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
These mothers are not just about mourning, they are about action,
and right now they demand the George Floyd Justice and
Policing Bill pass. It would do many things like create
a national registry to expose a CoP's working history so
those forced out of one department don't get hired somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I am not going to let his name be
in vain, so I talk about him everywhere I go.
And we have a foundation with the acronym of his name,
the Eric Initiative Foundation, and the Eric stands for eliminating
racism and inequality collectively, that's what his name stands for.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So A's Congress, we need to pass this George Floyd
bill because this should not be another child to lose
their life at the hands of a police officer.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
The blood of these.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Children is on Congress's hands. And I invite Congress to
sit down with each and every one of us and
tell us why they're not passing this bill because they
don't have to worry about their kids not coming home.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Exact Trayvon Martin's mother Sabrina Fulton wrapped up the panel
with the most important thing any of us could do
to get things done.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
I want to keep this short and sweet because I
know time is of the essence. So I want to
say to you, continue to apply pressure, do your part,
and get out and vote. Now, go be great.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
As the mothers gathered to go, taking their pain and
their strength and the heartbreak only a mother could feel.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So thank each and every one of your for coming
and for listening to what we have to say.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I took account of their number. It's as if they
could feel there will be more in the membership the
next time they gather.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The thing about the mothers of the movie, about any
of us sitting up here. It keeps growing, This stage
keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I'm Vanessa Tyler. Join me next time on Blackland. I
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