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>> PATRISSE CULLORS: Stained went on tour all of last year and basically birthed a movement.
The Coalition to End Sheriff’s Violence in LA Jails, which is a campaign that is made
up of family members, deputy on inmate abuse survivors, clergy, attorneys and concerned
community members. Our main focus right now is on getting permanent civilian oversight
over the Sheriff’s Department. There is not one civilian oversight body that has the
power to hold the Sheriff’s Department accountable. We want to implement that permanent civilian
oversight. I believe that Stained was able to lead myself, my family and, more importantly,
the rest of the community to action to say - we need to do more than just this art piece.
We now have a national petition because LA is the largest jailer in the world and it is also the most violent in the country.
We are asking the entire country to sign on to this petition that says civilian oversight
is necessary and it needs to be implemented now. It urges the County Board of Supervisors
to implement that civilian review board because they’re the ones that can make this happen.
We need three votes from them to make it happen.
We are asking everybody to go onto our website . Watch the video.
Sign the petition. Send it out to all of your networks.