Democrats to Release Broad Legislation Package to Fight ‘Racial Inequities’Epoch Times, Jun 5, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday that Democrats will introduce far-reaching legislation crafted to fight racial inequities in the criminal justice system, healthcare system, and education.
The package, which is currently being written by members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), will feature provisions designed to eliminate racial profiling, limit excessive use of police force, and eliminate the qualified immunity doctrine, which protects police officers from lawsuits over actions they perform in the line of duty.
Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol on Thursday that the legislation is focused on “Protecting equal justice and including a number of provisions ending racial profiling ending excessive use of force, ending qualified immunity, and again, addressing the loss of trust between police departments and communities they serve.â€
“Monday, we’ll be making our announcement as to what how we go forward in this particular aspect of it, but it is about other injustices too. It’s about health disparities. It’s about environmental injustice. It’s about economic injustice. It’s about educational injustice. So, we want to see this as a time where we can go forward in a very drastic way not incrementally, but in an important way to redress those problems.â€
“We will not relent until that is secured, that justice is secured.â€
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