Black Lives Matter activists are pressuring Democrats to embrace the BREATHE Act, which includes a section requiring a “roadmap for prison abolition.”
“The BREATHE Act is a legislative love letter to Black people,” BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors wrote in an op-ed for Teen Vogue on Thursday.
Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts announced the act in July, but it has not been brought before Congress.
Cullors, who has written a letter to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris requesting a meeting, told The Hollywood Reporter she is requesting that the new administration work to pass the BREATHE Act within the first 100 days.
A summary of the act calls for the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to create a plan that “provides for full decarceration of federal detention facilities within 10 years” and “enacts a moratorium on all new federal prison, jail, immigrant and youth detention construction.
Americans of all ethnicities are imprisoned, and in the vast majority of cases, justly so because they were found guilty by juries following legitimate trials. The question from black activists like Cullor should never be ‘Why does is our justice system racist?’ – it should be, ‘Why do so many more black people, per capita, commit jailable offenses?’
Also, this is pure Marxism. One of the ways Marxist ‘revolutionaries’ change governments and governing systems is by creating chaos; abolishing prisons would go a long way toward that objective. Far-left prosecutors are already engaged in that by refusing to charge and prosecute a growing number of crimes, especially in large cities, in part under the guise of ‘fighting systemic racism within the justice system.’
Great idea, after conviction the defendant has to go and live with a Liberal Democrat!
BLM is another SOROS funded marxist front organazation. Defund it destroy it pound it into dirt.
It is difficult to understand just how stupid some that walk among us are.
Just so you know BLM the police are who is protecting you if your Marxists ever abolish them then it’s time the people do what needs to be done and should’ve been done many years ago
Joe will hop right on this he believed in letting criminals out of prison early while the corona virus was worse than now maybe they will go to his 8 mansions and do sit ins, seems fair.