25 minute read
News
NEWS & VIEWS
Robert Williams.
Computer error Detroit police arrest wrong Black man based on facial recognition technology error, ACLU says
ACLU
A 42-year-old Black man said Detroit police unjustly arrested him after facial-recognition technology incorrectly flagged him as a shopliting suspect.
Robert Williams was arrested in January at his home in Farmington Hills in front of his wife and two young daughters and locked up for 30 hours. He was accused of stealing watches from Shinola.
While in jail, police showed him two blurry surveillance photos of the suspect.
“This is not me,” Williams recalls saying in a video about his arrest. “I hope you all don’t think all Black people look alike.” e said one o the officers respondedǡ “The computer must have gotten it wrong.”
It wasn’t until later that night that Williams was released from jail, his attorney, V ictoria Burton-Harris, said.
The charges have been dismissed.
“But the damage is done,” BurtonHarris, who is running for Wayne C ounty prosecutor, wrote in an op-ed for the AC LU on Wednesday. “Robert’s DNA sampleǡ mugshotǡ and fingerprints Ȅ all of which were taken when he arrived at the detention center Ȅ are now on file. His arrest is on the record. Robert’s wife, Melissa, was forced to explain to his boss
By Steve Neavling
why Robert wouldn’t show up to work the next day. Their daughters can never un-see their father being wrongly arrested and taen away Ȅ their first real experience with the police.”
The AC LU of Michigan lodged a complaint against Detroit police.
Facial-recognition technology has come under fire because eperts say it’s unconstitutional, unreliable, and racially biased. Studies have shown that the software misidentifies people o color more often than white people, which Metro Times reported in a cover story in July 2 0 19 . U .S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib was criticiz ed for warning about the technology’s bias, and saying police should hire Black analysts to review the footage because non-Black people can also have a bias.
“Analysts need to be African-Americans, not people that are not,” Tlaib told Detroit Police C hief James C raig during a tour of his department’s Real Time C rime C enter, according to a video published by Th e Detroit New s. “I think non-African-Americans think AfricanAmericans all look the same.
Detroit Police C hief James C raig repeatedly claimed the technology would not lead to false arrests, and suggested Tlaib’s comments were racist.
“It’s a software. It’s biometrics,” C raig told Fox & Friends. “And, to put race in it ... we’re talking about trained professionals. y staff goes through intense training with the FBI, and so they’re not looking at race, but it’s measurements. We were appalled when she made this statement.”
Detroit police did not respond for comment.
Despite mounting criticism of the technology, the Detroit Board of Police C ommissioners approved the use of the software.
Activists are calling on Detroit C ity C ouncil to reject the use of the technology. The contract with the software company is set to expire soon. Opponents of the technology have mobiliz ed two protests in which a caravan of cars drove past the homes of council members to encourage them to oppose the contract extension.
Detroit’s facial-recognition software is especially pervasive because it’s used on a quickly expanding surveillance networ o highǦdefinition cameras under Mayor Mike Duggan’s Project Green ightǡ a crimeǦfighting initiatie that began in 2 0 16 at gas stations and fast-food restaurants. Since then, the city has installed hundreds of surveillance cameras at parks, schools, low-income housing complexes, immigration centers, gas stations, churches, abortion clinics, hotels, health centers, apartments, and addiction treatment centers. The city is also installing highǦdefinition cameras at roughly 5 0 0 intersections at a time when other cities are scaling back because of privacy concerns. Dz ien the technology’s flawsǡ and how widely it is being used by law enforcement today, Robert likely isn’t the first person to be wrongully arrested because of this technology,” Burton- arris said. Dz e’s ust the first person we’re learning about.”
Last week, Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would ban facial recognition technology on the federal level and withhold money from state and local police departments that continue to use it.
Supporters of the bill, including Tlaib, arrest as one of the reasons they support a ban. DzThis man was handcuffed in ront of his family for something he did not do because police depended on this technology,” Tlaib said in a news release. “One person is too many and I have long called for a ban on the use of facial recognition technology. I am proud to join my colleagues today in introducing a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology.”
Last week, Boston became the latest city to bar police from using facial recognition technology, joining San Francisco, Oakland, C ambridge, Mass., and Somerville, Mass.
Activists are calling on Detroit C ity C ouncil to bar the technology as the city debates whether to extend a contract with the software company.
“Facial recognition is a uniquely dangerous form of surveillance,” Evan Greer, deputy director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future, said in a news release. “This is not just some Orwellian technology o the uture Ȅ it’s being used by law enforcement agencies across the country right now, and doing harm to communities right now. Facial recognition is the perfect technology for tyranny. It automates discriminatory policing and exacerbates existing injustices in our deeply racist criminal justice system.”
Duggan and C raig continued to defend facial recognition technology, saying it’s an important tool in fighting crime. C raig said the department is inestigating the three officers inoled in the arrest of the wrong man.
“It had nothing to do with technology, but certainly had everything to do with poor investigative work,” C hief said Thursday, Th e Detroit New s reported. “But there is a bright light in it, the third investigator assigned to this, he discovered problems. The video wasn’t clear as he felt it should be. He felt more should hae been done. e notified the prosecutor’s office and they uicly responded.”
NEWS & VIEWS
Amid impassioned cries of “Amandla!” and “Viva Mandela!” Nelson and Winnie Mandela wave to a crowd of more than 49,000 people at Tiger Stadium June 28, 1990.
D. WEISS/WALTER REUTHER LIBRARY
From Cape Town to Motortown Flying in to Metro Airport aboard Donald Trump’s Boeing 727, a newly freed Nelson Mandela touched down in Detroit 30 years ago this week to celebrate his release from a South African prison with a rally at Tiger Stadium
It is just past 10 o’clock on a Thursday night. The afternoon driz z le has filedǡ but a icious hailstorm is closing in on C orktown.
Like the clouds in the C lara Ward songǡ the approaching storm is ominous Ȅ so dar and sable. ut Reerend esse acson is praying the rain away. urely he is able. ere in the city’s oldest neighborhoodǡ not een the threat o hail can dampen the spirits o the ͥ͠ǡ͜͜͜ people oyously crammed inside Tiger tadium as they await the guest o honor. hausted rom his arduous ourneyǡ he is hours behind schedule. ut time matters not tonight. The Motor C ity is yearning.
The old ballpar’s huling light towersǡ lie the city itselǡ are abu. eated under the lights on a stage in deep center field are Rosa arsǡ teie onderǡ and retha ranlin. They are not here to see ecil ielder and the Detroit
Tigers. They are not here to see em
By Dave Mesrey
arney and the Detroit ions.
They are here to see adiba.
The crowdǡ the largest lac crowd eer to attend an eent at Tiger tadiumǡ is ready. any hae been here since the gates opened at ͠ o’cloc. Down the street on aayette enueǡ huc aidica is closely monitoring the approaching storm on hannel ͠’s Doppler radar. omewhere out near illsdaleǡ the clouds begin to dissipate. urrounded by a stoneǦaced security detail more than a doen strongǡ a longǡ blac adillac rolls onto the warning trac. man in a blue suit and bow tie grabs the microphone and implores his audience.
“Let us get ready!” s the limo inches its way toward the stageǡ the crowd is nearing eer pitch. The ͞ǡ͜͜͜Ǧperson choirǡ in its white shirts and sashesǡ rises to its eet. ubilant lac men in ufis and dashiis wail away on their dembes. nside the limousine is the city’s first rican merican mayorǡ the ormer Tusegee irman oleman . oung. eated net to him is the beleaguered but ebullient president Owen ieber. nd in the bac o the limousineǡ in the midst o a grueling orth merican reedom tour onboard one o Donald Trump’s shortǦlied shuttlesǡ sit an ehaustedǡ but ehilarated elson and Winnie Mandela.
The outfield once patrolled by the lies o Ty obb and l aline is filled with rican merican dignitaries. arry elaonteǡ endell nthonyǡ Damon eith. omewhereǡ Ron e lore is watching.
This is no mere baseball par. t is the place where arin aye first saw em arney tae to the gridironǡ where illie orton cut down ou rocǡ where oe ouis deended the heayweight title.
The limousine comes to a stopǡ and its doors begin to open. Out into the night steps the 7 1-year-old deputy president o the rican ational ongress. is aging eyesǡ damaged rom years o hard labor in the limestone uarry o Robben slandǡ suint under the glare o the lights. e is beaming.
The man in the blue suitǡ Re. endell nthonyǡ roars into his microphone once again. He is electric. DzmandlaǨdz he criesǡ his impassioned oice echoing in the night. DzgwethuǨdz the crowd roars in response. DzmandlaǨdz DzgwethuǨdz ower to the people. ter ͣ͞ years in a outh rican prisonǡ elson andela has come home. e is among comrades here. That this rally for Mandela is taking place at Tiger tadium is not lost on this crowd. Once nown as riggs tadium ater ormer Tigers owner alter riggsǡ it is a place whose inamous motto in the ͥ͜͝͡s was Dzo igs with riggs.dz nd it is the place where riggs’ most celebrated offseason employee at his eastside Detroit manuacturing plantǡ Detroit tars centerfielder orman DzTureydz tearnesǡ was not allowed to play because o the color o his sin.
Engulfed in a sea of stoic Secret Security agentsǡ the andelas wend their way through the throng. Tiger tadium is woke.
The ballpar’s oersied scoreboardǡ with its blaring billboards or udweiserǡ arlboroǡ and ocaǦolaǡ towers oer the stage. Out on the ancient centerfield flagpoleǡ an merican flag flaps gently in the wind. The stadium’s huling light towers illuminate the echoing green. ie apartheid itselǡ Tiger tadium’s days are numbered. opping his brow with a handerchie lie he’s ouis rmstrongǡ elson andela steps to the podium. e has arried at his destinationǣ Dzotortown.dz Dzrotherǡ brotherǡdz he saysǡ channeling arin ayeǡ Dzthere’s ar too many o you dying.” The crowd instantly recogniz es the lyrics. Dzotherǡ motherǡ there’s ar too many of you crying.” is words reflect not only the outh rican conditionǡ but the merican condition. Dz n the ace o your own problems and difficultiesǡdz he saysǡ Dzyou hae not orgotten us. ǥ our solidarity has gien us enormous strength and courage. Dz or how long must our brothers and sisters go on dying?” he asks. “We declareǡ not or longǨdz
The hour is getting lateǡ and adiba has grown weary. e must be on his way. ut beore he leaesǡ the ueen o oul serenades him rom the stage with a spine-tingling rendition of “Surely od s ble.dz
NEWS & VIEWS
Michigan residents are required to wear masks in stores. Many don’t.
STEVE NEAVLING
Guess who’s back Coronavirus makes an unwelcome comeback in Michigan after two months of significant progress
The number of new coronavirus cases rose for the sixth straight day in Michigan, reaching a one-day high for the month. The state reported 38 9 new confirmed cases on ridayǡ the highest mark since May 30 .
The new cases are spread across the state, prompting fears that the highly contagious virus is making a comeback ater ichigan made significant progress in reducing infections over the past two months.
On Wednesday, the number of new cases rose aboe ͟͜͜ or the first time since June 3.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lifted the state’s stay-at-home order on June 8 , far later than most states, permitting bars and restaurants to reopen at 5 0 % capacity. Beginning on June 15 , hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, and
By Steve Neavling
tattoo parlors were allowed to reopen. yms and fitness centers are still barred from reopening.
The upward trend follows a twomonth decline in C OV ID-19 cases, which allowed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to lift many of the state’s social-distancing restrictions. or the first time since pril ͝͠ǡ the number of C OV ID-19 patients in hospitals rose or two straight days to ͟͢͠. That’s still ar below the nearly ͠ǡ͜͜͜ C OV ID-19 hospitaliz ations in mid- prilǡ when the pandemic peaed in Michigan and overwhelmed hospitals. n early prilǡ the state was aeraging nearly 1,5 0 0 new cases a day.
The uptick comes as more people return to work and gather at bars, restaurants, parks, and homes, often without mass in defiance o the goernor’s order, though there is no penalty for not wearing a mask. It’s not unusual to walk into a grocery store or pharmacy and see people without masks.
On ednesday nightǡ the ͢th ircuit ourt o ppeals made a lastǦminute ruling to preent gyms and fitness centers from reopening Thursday morning. threeǦudge panel o the ͢th ircuit ourt o ppeals unanimously delayed a lower court’s ruling that allowed indoor fitness centers to reopen against Whitmer’s order. Despite the ruling, some gyms opened.
“We empathiz e with business owners and understand that many people are anxious to return to their normal eercise routinesǡ but the ͢th ircuit ourt o ppeals’ decision accurately takes into consideration the risk involved in reopening gymnasiums and fitness centers too soonǡdz Ryan ariǡ spoesman or ichigan ttorney General Dana Nessel tells Metro Times. “Michigan has come a long way in flattening the cure o O DǦͥ͝ cases, and the rising infection rates seen right now in other states is an alarming reminder of what could happen here if we act on impulse instead of science and the advice provided by medical experts. U nder the C ourt’s decision, gymnasiums should remain closed. acilities that remain open may be subect to misdemeanor penalties. We trust our partners in law enforcement throughout the state to make those gym owners in violation aware of the required closure and to use their discretion and authority in dealing with any violations that are reported.dz
Mayor Mike Duggan on Thursday threatened to shut down bars and restaurants in Detroit that fail to enforce capacity limits or requirements for employees to wear masks.
“We saw a few incidences last weekend that were ar too concerningǡdz Duggan said at a news conference.
Duggan said he’s worried that a few non-compliant businesses could “spark a burst of C OV ID in this community, and we can’t hae that happen.dz
The state’s death toll reached ͢ǡ͟͟͝ on Thursday, with fatalities rising in the single digits each day.
C oronavirus cases are surging in at least 2 9 states, prompting some officials to pause reǦopenings.
On Thursday, Whitmer signed an executive order allowing professional sports to resume without a live audience. aor eague aseball recently announced a shortened ͢͜Ǧgame season that will begin on uly ͞͠.
“We are now ready to gradually and safely allow professional sports to resume in ichiganǡdz hitmer said in a news release. “While this is an encouraging step in the reopening of our economy, it is critical for athletes to continue social distancing and taking precautions to stay safe. We want to keep our momentum going and keep moving forward, so it’s incumbent on everyone doing their part to slow the spread o O DǦͥ͝.dz
C oronavirus cases are surging in at least 2 9 states, prompting some to begin closing down again. In Texas, loridaǡ and rionaǡ which reopened their economies far earlier than most statesǡ the Republican goernors are ordering some businesses to close again. riona is reporting more than ͟ǡ͜͜͡ new cases a day. n loridaǡ the number of new cases rose to an all-time high of nearly 9 ,0 0 0 in a single day. Texas recorded more than 5 ,0 0 0 new cases a day last week.
NEWS & VIEWS
Howie Hawkins.
COURTESY PHOTO
Going Green Looks like the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins is now the marijuana candidate in 2020
OK, we were wrong. U .S. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan won’t be the pro-marijuana candidate of the 2 0 2 0 presidential race after all, since he ended his Libertarian Party campaign after just a few weeks earlier this spring. And it seems like the Libertarian Party isn’t pushing the cannabis issue too hard this year.
Dr. Jo Jorgensen wound up clinching the Libertarian Party nomination. Marijuana, however, is not highlighted specifically on her website. hen asked of her position on cannabis by Metro Times, a spokesperson said, “Dr. Jorgensen favors the repeal of all victimless crime laws, including
By Lee DeVito
those restricting the sale and use of cannabis. She supports full legaliz ation of cannabis. She would pardon all nonǦiolent offenders on her first day in office.dz
Of course, that seems to be better than the two major-party candidates. C annabis reform is not mentioned on Republican President Donald Trump’s website, though he has reportedly discussed possibly supporting a bill called the STATES Act, which would allow states to set their own marijuana laws without federal intervention. However, the bill would not federally de-schedule, or legaliz e, cannabis — and even then, that’s far from a campaign promise from Trump at this point.
Meanwhile, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has been criticiz ed by Trump for being an Dzarchitectdz o the ar on Drugs due to his role in the 19 9 4 C rime Bill. Biden’s stance on marijuana has changed since then, but he has also stopped short of calling for legaliz ing marijuana, though he said he would decriminalie it. e recently caught fla or an interview with Th e Break f ast Club’s C harlamagne Tha God, who asked him about the difference between legaliz ing marijuana and decriminaliz ing. Biden responded that scientists still hae to first Dzfind out whether or not there is any impact on the use of marijuana, not in leading you to other drugsǡ but what it affects. Does it affect longǦterm deelopment o the brain, and we should wait until the studies are done.dz ȋOur first choiceǡ en. ernie Sanders, would have truly been the marijuana candidate, saying he would legalie weed on his first day in officeǡ but he suspended his campaign to support Biden.)
So that brings us to the Green Party candidate and presumptive nominee Howie Hawkins. Or rather, that brings Hawkins to us. Shortly after we pub
lished a blog post about Amash and cannabis, a Hawkins aide emailed us to tout awins’ mariuana bona fidesǡ directing us to a lengthy statement on his website titled “Legaliz e Marijuana and End the War on Drugs,” and offered an interview.
OK , with everything going on right now — a once-in-a-generation plague, an economic depression, the frightening possibility of a second term of Trump — why is any of this important? Well, for one, we like weed. And we’re not alone. The American people are much further ahead than the major-party candidates on pot. A Pew Research poll found two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legaliz ation. Thirty-three states have legaliz ed medical cannabis, and 11 states have legaliz ed recreational use, including Michigan in 2 0 18 .
Born in San Francisco and now based in Syracuse, New York, Hawkins joined the Green Party when it formed in the 19 8 0 s. Since then, he has run or arious offices as the reen arty candidate, though unsuccessfully, including U .S. Senate in 2 0 0 6 , governor of New York in 2 0 10 , 2 0 14 , and 2 0 18 , and mayor of Syracuse in 2 0 17 . This is his first time running or president.
This week, he and running mate Angela Walker won enough delegates to secure the Green Party nomination. The Party originally planned to hold its nominating convention in Detroit at Wayne State U niversity on July 9 -12 , but it was shifted to a virtual format due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hawkins says that cannabis legaliz ation has been on the Green Party agenda as long as he can remember. “But the use of marijuana is a big problem at the federal level right now,” he says.
“New York, where I live, is the world’s capital for marijuana arrests,” he says. DzThey’re filling the prison system, the law enforcement system, and the criminal justice system with cases that they shouldn’t even be bothering with.” The problem is exacerbated, he says, by civil asset forfeiture, which incentiviz es police departments to use marijuana crimes as a way to seiz e peoples’ property to sell to raise revenue.
“Jails are expanding because of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration,” he says. “We have 2 5 % of the world’s prison population but only 4 % of the world’s population. So we want to reverse that.”
Though Biden has called for decriminaliz ation and expungement of convictions for marijuana-related crimes, Hawkins thinks that doesn’t go far enough. “[ It’s] a positive step forward,” he says. “But I think the politicians are behind the public on this. They’re afraid of the public. They’re afraid to stick their neck out. I mean, you know, the Democrats are usually seen as the socially liberal party, but if you follow issues like marijuana legaliz ation or gay marriage, they don’t move until public opinion is really clear. So I think Biden kind of epitomiz es this being super cautious rather than deciding what’s a real solution and fighting or it.dz Dz e’s putting his finger to the wind and seeing how far he can go, but meanwhile, it’s a huge problem for all the people whose families are disrupted because of marijuana busts,” Hawkins says. “Instead of addressing the problem, he’s polling ... he’s not being a leader, deciding what’s a good policy and then advocating for that. He’s sort of just seeing what the public will accept and pretty much avoiding it. He hasn’t put this issue front and center in any, in any regard, you know, even when he’s asked about it.”
As far as Trump’s aversion to marijuana goes, “I think he’s trying to appeal to the law-and-order mentality and the culture wars,” Hawkins says.
On the long-shot chance he is elected president, Hawkins says he “would have the Justice Department stop telling the States that have legaliz ed [ marijuana that] we’re coming after you. And then I would try to get that federal law changed so we could have marijuana be legal. To me, it’s less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal. So, you know, let’s just use common sense here.” Plus, the sale of legal cannabis would generate tax revenue.
Going even further, Hawkins says he calls for the decriminaliz ation of harder drugs, too, like Portugal did in 2 0 0 1. “[ There] it’s a violation, it’s not a criminal charge,” he says. “In Portugal, they meet with a lawyer, a social worker, and a doctor, and they look at your situation and see how they might help. Do you need a job? Do you need drug treatment? Do you need counseling because you’re using the drugs to cope with some other issue? And even if you don’t want any help and you just want to go back out and get high, you pay a fine and go about your business. They still enorce drug trafficingǡ but the personal use is not a criminal violation. And as a result, they have less people in prison, and O.D.s have [ dropped] . There’s not the kind of crime and violence around the drug trade at the street level. They greatly reduce the harm, and in fact, there are less people using the hard drugs now than when they started their policy.”
Hawkins thinks a similar approach could help in the U .S., which was hit
hard by the opioid crisis. “People are afraid to get help,” he says. “They get addicted sometimes just because they were given a prescription by a doctor. I had an inguinal hernia operation, and they handed me a bottle of Percocet without any warning. They just said, ‘ Here, take this.’ Then I talked to a guy who had got it, and he said it made him constipated. And, you know, having that observation, I didn’t want to be constipated after that operation. So I just didn’t use them. I didn’t even know the danger [ of addiction] . And that’s a huge problem, and then that becomes expensive for people. So they go to the street and get heroin, and they don’t know what they’re getting. A lot of people have died. So it’d be much better to make this an addiction problem. You can go get help instead of just trying to maintain your addiction with the illegal trafficing on the street that just creates all kinds of problems.”
Despite their popularity with voters, Hawkins is doubtful these issues will resonate in 2 0 2 0 due to the dual coronavirus and economic crises. “Now consumers are going to be reluctant to spend on anything, essentially to the extent they have the money to do that, and investors are going to be leery of risky new investments in that climate,” he says. “So that’s a recipe for longterm depression.” Hawkins calls for an “Ecosocialist Green New Deal” that would help fight the climate crisisǡ which could include an economic bill of rights to deal with poverty and economic despair.
He thinks the Green Party should resonate with voters who supported Bernie Sanders, but also with non-voters. “We’re also trying to appeal to the people that don’t vote, working-class people, people of color, and young people,” he says. “We’re trying to give them a message that they can get behind and get engaged because right now, people say they’re apathetic. I’ve done a lot of door-knocking. People are alienated. They just don’t trust the two parties. They feel like the parties and the politicians don’t know them, don’t know what their problems are, and don’t care about them. So, you know, we’re trying to reach those folks — and if we could reach all of them, we’d be a major party.”
Of course, that has yet to happen. The best the Green Party ever did in a presidential election was Ralph Nader’s 2 0 0 0 campaign, which earned just 2 .7 % of the vote — enough for critics to blame him for tipping the close election to George W. Bush. In 2 0 16 , Green Party candidate Jill Stein earned just 1.7 % percent of the vote, again earning accusations that she helped tip the election to Trump.
Hawkins disputes that Stein cost Hillary C linton the election, saying exit polls found 6 1% of Stein’s voters wouldn’t have voted for president if she wasn’t in the race. “I always say it wasn’t the Greens, it wasn’t the Russians, it was the electoral college,” he says. DzThey put Trump in officeǡ een though he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes.”
“Of course, the most common question [ I get] is ‘ Why are you going to spoil the election for Biden?’” Hawkins says. “And of course my answer is we’ve been given the nonpartisan answer to that, and that is to replace the electoral college with a ranked choice, national popular vote for president.”
Hawkins says that by running, the Green Party forces the Democratic Party to bend to the left, pointing to the time in 2 0 14 that he ran against Andrew C uomo for governor of New York and earned 5 % of the vote. “He looked at our 5 % , and he couldn’t take us for granted anymore,” Hawkins says. “And he ended up adopting three of our demands that he had never supported before — a ban on fracking, a $ 15 minimum wage, and paid family leave.”
“The way I look at it, Biden should crush Trump, because Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis is so plainly incompetent,” Hawkins says. “And then he’s got this economic depression that he doesn’t have any answers for. But Biden’s sort of been invisible.”
Hawkins says at the very least, he hopes he can get some of the issues he advocates for into the larger narrative, working to get on all 5 1 ballots. So far, he’s about halfway there. Dze’e got a significant campaignǡ and hopefully we can translate that into getting some of these issues debated that we’re trying to raise,” he says.
Your move, Biden.
