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I represent the DC area in the Virginia House of Delegates. Last night, the police tear gassed me anyway. (1/5)
My constituents, along with countless others across the country, were exercising their right to protest yesterday. The cops didn’t care. They instigated riots by firing into our peaceful crowd & charging towards us for no reason.

Elected officials are not spared. (2/5)
These scenes of authoritarianism were coming out of DC last night, not my motherland. (3/5)
They can try to intimidate us. We won’t stop. We won’t stop chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot.” We won’t stop demanding justice, for #GeorgeFloyd & everyone else killed by our system.
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Our country was on fire last night. Just as it was in Charlottesville three years ago. Because demagogues have been fanning the flames of racism nonstop.

I am now challenging @realDonaldTrump, again, to find the courage to extinguish it. (5/5)
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As thousands of Virginians lose their jobs, many are simultaneously losing their healthcare coverage. It's hard to understate how dangerous & devastating that is during a pandemic.

We need a system where healthcare is a condition of your humanity rather than your employment. 1/5
I introduced legislation just a couple months ago that would have provided Medicare-priced health insurance plans for any Virginian.

While it's not the gold-standard of single-payer healthcare, it's one of the biggest things individual states can do without federal help. 2/5
Most of my colleagues decided we shouldn't pursue that kind of bold healthcare policy this session. There was certainly other work to get done in such short time.

But the thousands of Virginians who still lack any healthcare coverage were counting on us, and we failed. 3/5
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Delegate Ibraheem S. Samirah
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As a doctor I feel that I must speak out. We don't have enough doctors nor places in hospitals to take care of everyone that will get the virus!! We don't have enough personal protective equipment in hospitals. Please let that sink!! In other words, if you get the virus...
You're probably not going to get treated. We dont even have enough tests to medically confirm you having it. The tests themselves in their form right now are inaccurate. ALSO, your doctors at the hospitals? They're getting COVID19 & are not being properly cared for. So guess what
Your doctors that are on the front lines of this war are getting COVID19. Only some of them know. Hospital admins are denying their doctors getting the tests as is. How do we know? Partners of doctors are getting COVID19 & hospitals are still forcing those MDs to go work AND
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What we’re not gonna do is spend two years slow-walking this new majority into the next election season. That’s the old Virginian Way. We need to act boldly on the promises we made to make Virginia affordable, inclusive, & just. That’s how you keep a majority for the next decade.
We are going to reject the influence of Big Pharma and the insurance companies and pursue the goal of universal healthcare coverage in Virginia.
We are going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and not a penny less.
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