The VP nominee said Black Lives Matter is the ‘most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system’
Democratic nominee for vice president Kamala Harris praised the “brilliance” of Black Lives Matter and called the continuing nationwide protests “as an essential component of evolution in our country.” During a virtual convention for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Friday, Sen. Harris (D-Calif.) said that BLM is the “most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system.”
“The brilliance and the impact of Black Lives Matter and their brilliance in conceiving it, history is going to show was an inflection point in the ongoing fight for justice, to your point, and to reform the criminal justice system and America’s criminal justice system,” Harris told CNN political commentator Angela Rye, who was hosting the event.
“I actually believe, as a former prosecutor, that Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system, because it has been a counterforce to the force within the system that is so grounded in status quo and in its own traditions, many of which have been harmful and have been discriminatory in the way that they’ve been enforced,” Harris proclaimed, according to RealClearPolitics.
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