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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 14, 2020, 08:25:25 pm

Title: Booker: GOP Senator Told Me Qualified Immunity ‘on the Table’ in Police Reform Bill
Post by: mystery-ak on June 14, 2020, 08:25:25 pm

Pam Key 14 Jun 2020

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told him the Senate’s policing reform proposals will address the doctrine of qualified immunity for police officers.

Partial transcript as follows:

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    BRENNAN: Well, I want to ask you- I want to ask you about this moment, because, I mean, it’s an election year and emotions are already supercharged. The president this morning sent a tweet quoting Michael Moore, a filmmaker, said “Democrats shouldn’t underestimate white male Trump supporters’ rage and emotion.” You heard my exchange with Senator Scott about whether it is ignorance or deliberateness to plan a rally around Juneteenth. Do you believe that you can come to a compromise with this administration on this issue?

    BOOKER: Well, this is what I know. I know the heart of Tim Scott and senators like Senator Braun, who said to me he’s- qualified immunity is on the table. We- we are one body of the United States Senate. And- and people of good heart and good spirit, regardless of what the president does. He can veto a bill, but we should come forward in this moment in history, which will be judged. We should put our best face- best faith efforts forward to put a bill–

    BRENNAN: Yeah.

    BOOKER: –intact that will stop the kind of awful violence and- and killing of unarmed people that we see in our country. We can do that. We know what works.

    BRENNAN: OK.

    BOOKER: And we know that half measures have not worked in the past from Ferguson to Minneapolis. We know what will work.

    BRENNAN: Well–

    BOOKER: This is not a radical bill, but we can get this done.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/06/14/booker-gop-senator-told-me-qualified-immunity-on-the-table-in-police-reform-bill/ (https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/06/14/booker-gop-senator-told-me-qualified-immunity-on-the-table-in-police-reform-bill/)