Ava DuVernay criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for his “violent rhetoric” surrounding “tough on crime” measures in the ’90s that have disproportionately affected black communities. Your violent rhetoric fed tensions that led to the bill you pretend to distant yourself from. In a 2016 op-ed for The Washington Post, Salaam wrote that while the teens endured public vilification at the time, “no one took it further than Trump.” “Trump has never apologized for calling for our deaths,” he wrote. He was likely referencing the First Step Act, a bipartisan prison reform bill he signed into law earlier this year. Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2019 18:28 UTC