When I was in high school, I started to notice something about my best friend, Wanda. She was sad at school, and there were times when she didn’t want to go home.
One day, I asked Wanda if everything was all right, and she confided in me that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather. I immediately told her she had to come live with us. I called my mother, and my mother said, “Of course she does.”
And so Wanda did.
Wanda’s story is one of the reasons I wanted to become a prosecutor. As a courtroom prosecutor, I felt a deep sense of responsibility to take on crimes and harms against women and children. When I had a case, I charged it not in the name of the victim but in the name of the people for one simple reason: In our system of justice, a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.
Through all my decades in law enforcement, I never asked a victim or a witness, “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?” The only question I ever asked was, “Are you okay?” That is the kind of president we deserve, and that is the kind of president I pledge to be.
As president, I will fight to protect our fundamental freedoms and make sure everyone has a right to safety, dignity, and justice.
释放「彭载舟」!
2022年10月13号在北京四通桥上,他独自发动了一场反抗行动。
他首先点火引人注目,并挂了一幅横幅,上面满是他对中国政府的诉求。
在此之前,他在X(推特)发布了一个宣言,自称「彭载舟」。
自此,他便杳无音讯。他若还活着,大抵是就被关在牢里,不断地受难。
我们呼吁中国共产党回应:自称「彭载舟」那一位男士(也被称为彭立发)到底在哪里?我们要求一个独立的人道主义医疗团队访问以确保他的人身安全,身体健康,监禁条件。我们要求共产党公开针对他所有的指控,诉讼,以及判决。最重要的是, 我们要求立即无条件释放他。
RELEASE PENG ZAI ZHOU!
On October 13, 2022, a lone protestor staged an act of defiance on a bridge in Beijing.
He lit a fire to attract attention to himself, and unfurled a banner, demanding freedom from totalitarianism.
In his online manifesto posted on X (formerly Twitter), he called himself Peng Zai Zhou.
He has not been heard from since. If alive, he is almost certainly being held in Chinese black prison, in unthinkably miserable conditions.
We call on the Chinese Communist Party to answer the question: Where is the man who called himself Peng Zai Zhou, also believed to be Peng Li Fa? We demand a visit from independent humanitarian medical staff to determine his health, safety, and conditions of imprisonment. We further demand the Chinese Communist Party disclose the charges brought against him, any legal proceedings he has faced, and any sentence that has been passed, as required by Chinese law. Most importantly, we demand his immediate and unconditional release.