2/I& #39;ve been watching a certain crime documentary and an underlying theme is how our families& #39; concerns are often disregarded; the system offers no sympathy or redress. It& #39;s a reality that Kamala discusses here:
3/So how did we let the decades-long criminal justice resume of a woman who prosecuted crimes committed against women and children, created the Bureau of Children& #39;s Justice, started the Coalition to End the Exploitation of Kids, cleared the CA rape kit backlog in < than a yr...
4/...and introduced bipartisan legislation to make cyber exploitation (revenge porn) a federal crime be reduced to "locking up Black men for weed"? Well, her detractors knew that the ambitious, Black woman in law enforcement was an easy sell as a villain...
5/They knew that we& #39;d be distracted by EXISTING truancy laws (that she leveraged to connect parents to resources) and distortions about her role/policy on marijuana arrests even though the actual record was public https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">...
6/And now since we& #39;re all victims advocates again, revisit the public record (not op-eds); listen to her explain why she became a prosecutor https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> and consider the champion that we could have:
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