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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) calls for Washington, D.C., to be made the fifty-first U.S. state via the proposed D.C. Admission Act, to be voted on Thursday at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. April 21, 2021.
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Black Lives Matter on Wednesday condemned the comments Speaker Nancy Pelosi made about George Floyd in the immediate aftermath of the Chauvin verdict.
Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus news conference on Capitol Hill after the trial, Pelosi said, “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice.”
“For being there to call out to your mom, how heartbreaking was that,” Pelosi continued. “And because of you … your name will always be synonymous with justice.”