Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Crystal Vielula Sky and her friends are

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all written by disabled people

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Now she’s starting middle school for the second time

Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Crystal Vielula Sky and her friends areA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut imagines a radically positive future where police arent in charge of public safety and community well being. Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder