00:00So now we mentioned earlier the beating of DeAndre Harris and the death of Heather Heyer
00:09in Charlottesville.
00:10What do you say to people who see that and is a reason not to protest?
00:16Well, first of all, I want to send my condolences to Heather's family and I want to send, you
00:23know, my deep love for DeAndre as he's recovering from his injuries and all of the people of
00:28Charlottesville that were physically abused, but also traumatized and continue to be traumatized
00:36by the experiences that have happened over the last couple of days.
00:41But I think that we should make sure that our communities are safe right now.
00:48And I think we need to make sure that, you know, folks continue to not just show up in
00:55the streets, but there are a significant amount of policies, racist policies that this administration
01:02is upholding across the nation, but also that a lot of our local governments are upholding,
01:08like the Muslim ban, like the continued disruption of undocumented communities, like the continued
01:17killings of black people at the hands of law enforcement.
01:21So, yes, we need to be in the streets and our folks need to also realize that our local
01:28governments and our national government has to be accountable for the policies that they've
01:31created to allow for white supremacists that have been showing up in these streets.
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