As nationwide protests against police brutality enter their third week, Democrats unveiled legislation meant to overhaul policing in the United States. And they wore kente cloth for good measure.
On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Justice in Policing Act alongside her House and Senate colleagues. NBC Newsno-knock warrants in drug cases like the one that led to the fatal shooting ofas well as a federal ban on chokeholds, a restraint used against George Floyd before he died in police custody on Memorial Day.
“Never again should the world be subjected to witnessing what we saw on the streets in Minneapolis, the slow murder of an individual by a uniformed police officer,” Congresswoman Karen Bass said. She added that the bill “establishes a bold, transformative vision of policing in America” and boasts more than 200 co-sponsors in the House and the Senate.
qualified immunity for officers, a ban on military-style weapons for police, a national database of police officers with records of abuse, and . While the bill is undoubtedly the most aggressive police legislation in decades, nothing in the bill calls for a reduction in police department budgets. This may come as a disappointment to many activists who have beenother public services.
But the Democrats are likely more concerned about the bill’s passage than satisfying all of their constituents: There is a Republican majority in the Senate, and Donald Trump is still prattling on about the preservation of law and order in
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