Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a Harvard Commencement ceremony held for the classes of 2020 and 2021.
"As we gather today to celebrate this milestone in your life, we are also holding on to an enormous amount of grief because of yet another mass shooting at another school in our country," he said."An unspeakable act of violence has devastated families and the entire community in Uvalde, Texas. I know I speak for all of us here that our hearts are broken."
Garland said that before the back-to-back mass shootings in Uvalde and at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, and the attack on Taiwanese parishioners at a church in Laguna Woods, California, he had decided to make his speech about public service. He said he still wanted to do so because"these tragedies only underscore how urgent the call to public service for your generation truly is."
"The two who stayed behind died in the Holocaust," he said."So for me, public service is a way to repay the debt my family owes to this country for our very lives. I know that you all worked very hard to get here. So did I. And for different reasons the fact that we are all here today makes us lucky. So I hope you all make a promise similar to the one that I made to devote some part of your life to public service.
Arrest someone FFS