Blumenthal Speaks on the One-Year Anniversary of George Floyd's Murder

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, while chairing a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd:

“Before we begin the hearing, let me just take a moment to recognize that today is the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. The recent guilty verdict, a lot of events that have occurred in this past year, provide necessary accountability – but it isn’t true accountability and it isn’t true justice.”

“Justice would be for George Floyd to be here alive today.”

“True justice, equality, and equity require real action and real change in policing and all across our society, elimination of racism wherever it exists. There’s a lot of work to do. The Subcommittee on the Constitution will have a part on it. So will our entire Senate, and we need to move forward with action to match this moment of reckoning for our country.”

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