Democrats unveil sweeping legislation in response to protests of police brutality

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Democrats unveil sweeping legislation in response to protests of police brutality
By Mike Lillis and Scott Wong - 06/08/20 11:12 AM EDT

Democrats in both chambers introduced sweeping reforms on Monday designed to combat racial disparities in the criminal justice system — the party’s much awaited legislative response to recent police violence against African Americans that's sparked mass protests across the country and beyond.

Crafted by leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Justice in Policing Act aims to rein in the use of excessive force by law enforcers, particularly the violence targeting blacks and other minorities, who die disproportionately at the hands of police.

The package — the most aggressive crack down on law enforcement to arrive in decades — would establish a federal ban on chokeholds; eliminate the legal shield protecting police from lawsuits; mandate the use of body cameras nationwide; ban military-style weapons for police; and create a national database disclosing the names of officers with patterns of abuse.

It also includes a bill passed by the House earlier this year that would make lynching a federal hate crime.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats rolled out the legislation Monday morning, immediately after they held a moment of silence and took a knee in the Capitol Visitors Center for 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the exact time that a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of a handcuffed African American man, George Floyd, before he died.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/501636-democrats-unveil-sweeping-legislation-in-response-to-protests-of-police

[EdinVA]

Makes me want to be in law enforcement..... NOT

[skeeter]

George Floyd is analogous to that little Syrian boy who drowned while accompanying his dad to a dentist appointment on an adjacent island, used by the media to flood Europe with Muslim men - the false flag operation to enable progressive reform.

People have got to recognize the pattern by now.

[Idiot]

Makes me want to be in law enforcement..... NOT

Exactly!  They'll be retiring/quitting in droves.

[libertybele]

Of course.  The DEMS have again jumped on this opportunity.  Why didn't the GOP come up with their own bill?  Why? Why? Why?  They are sitting there bickering among each other with anti-Trump rhetoric instead of showing unity as the DEMS are.

So now, if the GOP Senators don't go along with this (which they will) or it hits the President's desk and he doesn't sign, it's game over. 

[skeeter]

Of course.  The DEMS have again jumped on this opportunity.  Why didn't the GOP come up with their own bill?  Why? Why? Why?  They are sitting there bickering among each other with anti-Trump rhetoric instead of showing unity as the DEMS are.

So now, if the GOP Senators don't go along with this (which they will) or it hits the President's desk and he doesn't sign, it's game over.

Because, as usual, the GOP fled & left the rhetorical field to the rat media. If they had stood up for truth they could have offered legislation that would actually address the reality of the situation instead of being pulled along by the progressive left.