The Black Lives Matter Act
The Black Lives Matter Act
Why this petition matters
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Whereas, the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees all Americans the fundamental right of freedom from unreasonable seizure of our lives;
and whereas the thirteenth amendment to the United States mandates the abolition of all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States;
and whereas the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution enforces these rights against the States, and guarantees the equal protection of the law for every American citizen.
We the people, do hereby declare that institutional racism endures intractably within the police departments of Ohio and these United States; such that patterns and practices of constitutional and human rights violations against African-American citizens of the United States persist as badges and incidents of slavery. We the people do further declare that the current scheme of municipal collective bargaining unconstitutionally infringes on the rights of the people to a republican form of government; depriving us the fruit of our sacred right to vote by usurping the people’s power to efficiently, and lawfully terminate bad police officers and grossly negligent municipal employees.
Therefore, We the citizens of Ohio demand that the legislatures of this state, and the United States Congress enact:
A bill to enforce the constitutional rights of American citizens to be free from police brutality and municipal malfeasance, to abolish the legal doctrine of qualified immunity in both the criminal and civil law, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to revise, rescind, and enjoin municipal collective bargaining agreements, and to authorize the Congressional Black Caucus to form a committee.
Decision Makers
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Representative Marcia L. FudgeUnited States Representative for the 11th district of Ohio