This is the Tom Hartman program.

Congressman Mark Polkian is with us taking your calls on our National Progressive Town

Hall meeting.

His website is Polkampiocaen.house.gov.

He represents the second district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House.

He's a member and former co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

And his Twitter handle is Rep. Mark Polkian.

Congressman Polkian, welcome back.

What's on your mind this morning?

Probably a little celebration still from the verdict yesterday, watching my good friend

Keith Ellison, the former chair of the Progressive Caucus.

Now the Attorney General in Minnesota say that this opens the door for a reset button on

race relations.

And I think that's a good way of putting it.

This provided some accountability, but certainly I don't think what I would fully call justice

because George Floyd is still dead, but this did send a powerful signal that at least

aren't above the law that we have a problem with race relations specifically among policing.

And we've done bills in Congress to address that, but to see that verdict, I think that

sent a really important signal, and I hope Attorney General Ellison is right, that this can

press that reset button.

So I think that's, even though we're very busy in Congress doing lots of other things,

I think that was very significant in front of many of our minds.

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