Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Thursday called out her state’s Democratic attorney general, and vowed to help “fight” the criminal charges against 11 pro-Palestine protestors at the University of Michigan.
“We have a Michigan Attorney General going beyond what the county prosecutor has done in evaluating, investigating, but also deciding, you know, at this moment, to reduce resources,” said Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress, at a Black-Palestinian solidarity panel in Washington DC, moderated by Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan.
“Instead of getting justice, not one criminal charge in the Flint Water Crisis, you’re going to spend time in trying to use the power of your office to silence people’s First Amendment right,” she said, adding: “Literally, we have protests and marches for Black Lives Matter, for immigrant rights, for climate, for reproductive health, nothing. But when it’s for Palestine, all of a sudden we have people saying, what Constitution?” ….more
