Protests over the police killing of George Floyd have shaken Minneapolis this week.
An emergency public health declaration could help alleviate a 400-year-old sickness, Jenkins suggested during a city press conference Thursday.
“We feel as if there was a knee on all of our collective necks ― a knee that says Black life does not matter,” Jenkins began. “So I am asking my colleagues, the mayor, and anyone else who is concerned with the state of affairs in our community to declare a state of emergency declaring racism as a public health issue. Until we name this virus, this disease that has infected America for the past 400 years, we will never, ever resolve this issue.”
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