Congressional Democrats unveil sweeping police reform bill that would ban chokeholds, no-knock...
Source: NBC
The measure would ban chokeholds like the kind that led to the death of George Floyd and no-knock warrants, as was used before Breonna Taylor's fatal shooting.
WASHINGTON House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday unveiled far-reaching legislation to overhaul policing in the U.S.
The bill, dubbed the Justice in Policing Act, would ban chokeholds, including the kind used by a police officer in the Minneapolis death of George Floyd last month, as well as no-knock warrants in drug cases, as was used in the incident leading to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in March, according to a bill summary obtained by NBC News and a House Democratic aide.
The legislation would also require local police departments to send data on the use of force to the federal government and create a grant program that would allow state attorneys general to create an independent process to investigate misconduct or excessive use of force, according to the five-page summary of the bill. Further, the bill would make it easier for people to recover damages when police departments violate their civil rights.
"The martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of national anguish as we grieve for the black Americans killed by police brutality today," Pelosi said. "This moment of national anguish is being transformed into a movement of national action as Americans from across the country peacefully protest to demand an end to injustice. Today, with the justice and policing at the Congress is standing with those fighting for justice and taking action."
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dalton99a
(81,426 posts)mpcamb
(2,869 posts)...giving police free reign unless something has been SPECIFICALLY forbiden in a previous cases
AS Casey Stengel said, "You can look it up."
PSPS
(13,583 posts)ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)Right now their fight is maintain enough base support to fight another day. I looks like LBJ's prediction of losing the south for a generation, after signing the voting rights act was extended up to this year and looks to finally be ending. The confederate statues are coming down and now a geration who has known only 2 presidents, a great black one and the worst possible white one are horrified that systematic racism facilitates horrors that are unacceptable to live with. When I was groeing up, the idea of a black presdient provided for great comedic material. I never thought systematic racist reform would be a serious polical posture, never mind a movemrnt leading to strong legislative propsals.
in2herbs
(2,944 posts)we weed out conservative judges at all levels we will be stuck in this continuous loop with the courts continuing to allow cops to be afforded quasi or complete immunity for their misbehavior.
GOTV and demand that the new administration cleanse the judicial system of those who support the systemic racism that their decisions support.
Aristus
(66,307 posts)Perps flushing their stash down the toilet when the cops ID themselves on the front porch is a risk they're going to have to live with. Innocent people are dying when these clown crash into houses without identifying themselves, and then start blasting even if the owners aren't armed and defending themselves.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)Its clear that the war on drugs is a colossal failure that has cost billions of dollars and created a lot of crime syndicates. We learned nothing from Prohibition, during which the profits form the sale of illegal alcohol fueled the mob and and made it stronger. So too has the war on drugs made the drug cartels strongerand richer. I believe we should treat drugs like alcohol. Legalize its manufacture, limiting the potency, tax its sale, and use the tax money to fund effective drug prevention and treatment programs. Just as people found a way to buy alcohol during Prohibition, so too will those who want to use drugs find a way to buy, or steal, them. Some illegal drugs would most likely still be sold, but eventually that would go away just as moonshine did.
But we cant even have this conversation so long as people see drug use as a moral issue rather than a health or dependence issue.
ancianita
(36,009 posts)since it won't pass this year.
Democrats step up and keep Republicans from redeeming themselves; Democrats demonstrate the good governance Republicans have no clue about as rw tools "investigate" their Biden issues in their usual lame, weak effort to deflect from their massa's harm to this nation.
marble falls
(57,055 posts)cities they patrol.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,031 posts)Why did it take so long?
Normanart
(279 posts)I was just thinking the same thing. Police have been killing and beating the crap out of people, mostly black, since forever. Serious question, why did it take so long?
Back in the Nixon era, I was strip searched because of long hair, questioned extensively and patted down because of military style jacket, and generally profiled while using public transportation. BTW, I am white and a Vietnam vet.
I saw black friends getting beaten and arrested for being in the wrong place. All I am saying, ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,336 posts)And it won't succeed on McConnell's watch.
Even a Dem senate will have a tough time getting sixty votes.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,031 posts)Besides, he needs to update his resume. He will be having to find some new work soon.