WATCH: @russcontreras & @lisahopeking host a conversation on criminal justice reform, addressing sentencing disparities for people of color and policy initiatives for reform, feat. @RepKarenBass and The Ladies of Hope Ministries founder @TopekaKSam. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@RussContreras @lisahopeking @RepKarenBass @TopekaKSam .@RepKarenBass: "The most important part of the [George Floyd Justice and Policing Act] is that the bill that holds officers accountable...As a country, we are tired and we are horrified in seeing videotape after videotape." 
@RussContreras @lisahopeking @RepKarenBass @TopekaKSam .@RepKarenBass on protests in 2020 moving the needle: "Many of the provisions in the bill are not new. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been fighting for these different provisions for decades. But public pressure led to us finally beginning to move."
@RussContreras @lisahopeking @RepKarenBass @TopekaKSam .@TopekaKSam on rethinking the justice system: "We can hold people accountable while healing people so that we don't have this cycle of abuse."
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