LAT: Op-Ed: Joe Biden: No one can stay silent. No one can ignore justice
Op-Ed: Joe Biden: No one can stay silent. No one can ignore justice
By JOE BIDEN
JUNE 6, 202012:15 PM
In every corner of this country this weekend, George Floyd’s words, which were the words of Eric Garner before him, are echoing from millions of voices in our streets and in our hearts.
“I can’t breathe.”
And, Friday should have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday — a day she didn’t live to see.
They are among the latest additions to an endless list of lives stolen and potential wiped out unnecessarily....
If elected, I am committed to establishing a national police oversight commission within 100 days of taking office. We need to implement real community policing and ensure that every police department in the country undertakes a comprehensive review of their hiring, their training, and their de-escalation practices, with the federal government providing the tools and resources needed to implement reforms. But, we cannot wait for new leadership to make reforms. Congress should take action immediately to outlaw chokeholds, stop the transfer of weapons of war to local police forces, improve oversight and accountability, and create a model use-of-force standard.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-06/op-ed-joe-biden-protests-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-justice
