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🗣️Honoring a Hero, Supporting the Future: Join me at the Manny Familia Scholarship Fundraiser!
👉🏽This year, I'm attending the 2nd Annual Manny Familia Scholarship Foundation Fundraiser to honor Officer Emmanuel "Manny" Familia and his dedication to justice and equality.
"When about 20 Burlington High School students visited the Queen City’s police department headquarters Wednesday for a forensics class, officers staged a mock shooting—complete with a masked assailant and realistic gunshot sounds.
"But the demonstration came without warning to the students.
”My days working for the City of San Antonio’s homeless outreach division were spent navigating the epicenter of converging crises—historical and structural racism, the War on Drugs, and late stage capitalism.”