The Trump administration is pushing back against calls to reform qualified immunity for police.
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during Monday's White House briefing said a key measure in the House Democrats' proposed Justice in Policing Act—a reform to"qualified immunity"—is a"non-starter" while the Trump administration continues to lag in putting forth proposals demanded by worldwide protests of police violence and systemic racism.... [+]
briefing at the White House on June 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump will meet with law enforcement officers later in the day on Monday. Qualified immunity refers to a doctrine that greatly mitigates victims of police violence from levying civil lawsuits against officers that violated their constitutional rights, with the proposed reform removing those protections.
She further derided a growing call to defund police departments that take up a substantial portion of city budgets away from programs that could reduce crime like housing services and education, saying Trump was"appalled" by the movement. Pushed on what action the administration would take to address the demands of protesters worldwide—two weeks after the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd while in police custody—McEnany simply repeated that Trump is"looking at a number of proposals."
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