Joe Biden Backtracks on Police Oversight Commission as Black Lives Matter Riots Erupt in Minnesota over Police ShootingWendell Husebo 12 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden has backtracked on a campaign pledge to establish a police oversight commission as Black Lives Matter riots erupted Sunday in Minnesota following a police shooting.
Director of the Domestic Policy Council Susan Rice announced the decision to Politico:
Based on close, respectful consultation with partners in the civil rights community, the administration made the considered judgment that a police commission, at this time, would not be the most effective way to deliver on our top priority in this area, which is to sign the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act into law.
Rice also said the White House is working on alternative measures with Congress to address police reform by “working with Congress to swiftly enact meaningful police reform that brings profound, urgently needed change.â€
However, Senate Democrats filibustered police reform legislation presented by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) in 2020, “blocking an effort at bipartisan reforms in the wake of nationwide unrest over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month,†Breitbart’s Joel B. Pollak reported.
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