We have our Asian American brothers and sisters who are being targeted, Latinos who are being targeted, communities who don’t feel safe. And we need to be able to address public safety for everyone. And it may have been Tyre Nichols yesterday; it could be you or anyone else tomorrow.

The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.That’s an additional 2,244 black people killed.3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020.Black perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.White people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116 murders and Asians for only 65 murders.

“In 2020, one out of every 1,000 young Black males (15–34) was shot and killed.”“More than half of all black teens (15–19) who died in 2020—a staggering 52%—were killed by gun violence,” it shockingly observes.