This needs to be a national story.

 

This needs to be a national story.

In the Deep South, voters in Memphis, Tennessee showed up in a MAJOR way to oust conservative DA Amy Weirich and elect Steve Mulroy — a progressive reformer and civil rights attorney. 

It's a HUGE deal. THANK YOU to everyone who worked hard for this victory.⁠

We contacted thousands of voters to help elect Steve, a fighter for civil rights, justice, and accountability. Steve will be “tough on crime” by introducing real public safety solutions that actually invest in our communities instead of criminalizing them. ⁠

FORMER DA Amy Weirich said she was "tough on crime" but what she actually meant was sending as many Black people to jail as possible. 

Amy regularly committed prosecutorial misconduct, including withholding evidence before trial to send innocent Black people to jail — including her attempt to send Pamela Moses to prison for six years for registering to vote.⁠

She prosecuted more kids as adults than the rest of Tennessee combined and nearly all of them are Black.⁠ Racial discrimination was so rampant that multiple County Commissioners endorsed a racial equity audit of her office⁠.

Meanwhile, Memphis is number one in the nation for violent crime per capita and it’s gone up every year that Amy has been in office. More proof that over-policing our communities doesn’t keep us safe. 

Black and brown bodies had been suffering in Memphis for too long under her reign and last night, voters made it clear that they’ve had enough and elected Steve Mulroy to replace her. 

Amy even tried to bring Steve’s campaign down by directly mentioning us and our work in a dishonest radio ad that featured some of the same fear-mongering we’ve seen in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other cities where we’ve elected pro-civil rights DAs. 

But it didn’t work. After Chesa was recalled, the national media claimed that our movement was on the decline. But now, in a city bigger than San Francisco, we’ve elected a champion for justice and civil rights in Steve Mulroy. 

Police unions and conservative mega-donors can continue working to oppose our movement, but together we will keep fighting to elect pro-civil rights and pro-justice DAs like Steve all across America.⁠

Let's keep pushing forward.

— Real Justice

P.S. We have a BIG FIGHT coming up in Texas in just two months, and it’s going to take ALL OF US to make sure that our justice champions in Dallas and San Antonio are re-elected. Can you split a donation right now, between the candidates and Real Justice, so that we can build on our victories and continue this important work in Texas?

 

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