Leaders Should Shut Up or Make Sense National leaders need to stop saying crazy stuff. Less than two weeks ago, following the tragic police shooting of a fleeing Minnesota man named Duante Wright, Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib drew nation-wide headlines by calling for the total abolition of police. “Duante Wright was met with aggression and violence,” Tlaib tweeted accurately enough—before going on to refer to his death as a “government funded murder” and call for “no more policing, incarceration, and militarization” in the United States. For good measure, the sitting Representative said that the accidental shooting of Wright—who was killed by an officer who very clearly mistook her gun for a non-lethal weapon—“wasn’t an accident.” She went on to add the opinion that American policing is “inherently and intentionally racist.”