We can multitask.

We can be outraged at this woman recklessly endangering a man's life with a false police report & ALSO demand comprehensive legislation addressing disproportionate police brutality against black & brown people.

#BlackLivesMatter 1/ https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920

We all know she endangered a man's life by falsely claiming he was threatening her in a 911 call. We know that an unarmed black man is ≈ 3.4x more likely to be shot by police than an unarmed white person.

But we don't have to live like this. 2/

At the federal level, they don't even track police-involved shootings in a systematic way to be able to determine what hiring or training practices could reduce discriminatory violence.

That must change. 3/

We need to tell the politicians asking for our votes at every level in the #2020Elections that if they want our vote, they must commit to addressing discrimination and violence against communities of color by law enforcement.

4/

Our communities are not safe if ALL of us are not safe. We should not accept a world in which law enforcement officers are a deadly threat to some of us. We need to demand change from politicians at every level of government.

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