NEW: Republican senators unveil police reform bill that doesn’t ban chokeholds but incentivizes their discontinued use by withholding federal funding if police departments don’t certify that they’ve stopped using the deadly technique.
Scott, who has publicly detailed instances when he has been racially profiled by the police both in his home state and inside the U.S. Capitol, led his colleagues in crafting the legislation and unveiled it at a Wednesday morning news conference where he was joined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
McConnell said that he is going to move Scott’s legislation to the floor next week, setting up a clash between the Democratic-led House and the Republican-led Senate on the legislation.The death of Floyd has moved Republicans farther along on the issue of police reform than they have been in the past, but they are resistant to creating any national standards of policing.
Failure to comply with data collection on no-knock warrants and body camera use in the Republican bill results in a reduction of federal funds. Police departments can apply for $1 million grants to implement the data collection. It also requires police departments to keep and update disciplinary records of officers and share the records with other local departments when an officer moves departments.
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