Local Leaders Across The US Are Asking The Justice Department To Investigate How The Government Failed People Of Color In The Coronavirus Outbreak
“Primarily people who are getting it, dying from it, are in the very communities that they just sent out to work without protection,” Williams said. “These are intentional decisions that were made by local executives in the state.”
The group hopes the DOJ will expedite an investigation and offer subsequent policy recommendations ahead of a possiblethat the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said could happen this fall and winter. “We need some systems in place, so we’re hoping there’s a preliminary finding and then a longer-term finding,” said Adams.
Access to testing is also an issue local lawmakers hope the DOJ will help address. In mid-April, the New York Postthat most residents living in zip-codes with the highest per-capita testing rates in New York City were whiter and wealthier. And in Detroit, where blacks make up 78.
Federal lawmakers have made their own calls for better oversight into how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people of color. Democrats in Congress
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