If passed this could do a lot to protect people from the police.
Courtesy of NBC News:
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.
A training program would be created under the bill that would cover racial bias and duty to intervene, and the measure would require that police officers use deadly force only as a last resort and use de-escalation techniques. The measure would also create a federal registry for misconduct complaints and disciplinary actions against police officers.
Under the bill, federal uniformed police officers would be required to wear body cameras and marked federal police vehicles would be required to have dashboard cameras. The legislation would also limit the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local police departments.
The Republicans are going to push back hard against this, and Trump will never sign it.
Which is why Democrats need to take back the Senate and put Joe Biden in the White House so that we can make changes to protect our most vulnerable citizens.
If we really want police reform in this country we are going to need to vote like we want police reform in this country.
trumpt want the police out of control(kills more N******s that way). isn’t he a person of colour ,too? orange, that is.
“I heard the news today, oh boy…..”
YES, but it will never pass the Senate.
An assault vehicle came in where I work a year ago to get a radio installed.
Now why in the HELL would you need that? Reform, please.
Will Biden choose pelosi as his running mate?
No.
https://www.courthousenews.com/new-house-bill-would-revoke-qualified-immunity-for-police/
“A bill that would make it easier to sue police officers and other government officials for violating people’s civil rights was introduced in the U.S. House by two lawmakers Thursday.
The bill would eliminate qualified immunity, the ability of police officers to argue they acted in good faith when they violated someone’s constitutional rights. It also allows police to be sued for enforcing a law if the law is subsequently changed. The doctrine has come under attack recently by both liberal and conservative scholars.”
“Recently the Reuters news agency analyzed 529 federal appeals court cases and found a “growing trend” toward judges excusing police brutality under the qualified immunity doctrine.
“More than ever, they are ignoring the question of whether cops have violated a plaintiff’s constitutional rights” and “increasingly requiring a nearly identical case from the past to serve as a precedent that clearly establishes an officer’s actions as illegal — a high standard that again makes it hard to win against the police,” the report said.”
Ayanna Pressley and Justin Amash are co-sponsoring the bill.
*WARNING*
A massacre is about to happen in Alaska!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/06/08/trump-administration-make-it-easier-hunters-kill-alaska-bear-cubs-wolf-pups/
“Hatred of Men With Black Hair” by Robert Bly
I hear spokesmen praising Tshombe, and the Portuguese
In Angola. These are the men who skinned Little Crow!
We are all their sons, skulking
In back rooms, selling nails with trembling hands!
We fear every person on earth with black hair.
We send teams to overthrow Chief Joseph’s government.
We train natives to kill the President with blowdarts.
We have men loosening the nails on Noah’s ark.
State Department men float in the heavy jellies near the
bottom
Like exhausted crustaceans, like squids who are confused,
Sending out beams of black light to the open sea.
Each fights his fraternal feeling for the great landlords.
We have violet rays that light up the jungle at night,
showing us
The friendly populations; and we teach the children of
ritual,
The forest children, to overcome their longing for life,
and we send
Sparks of black light that fit the holes in the generals’
eyes.
Underneath all the cement of the Pentagon
There is a drop of Indian blood preserved in snow:
Preserved from a trail of blood that once led away
From the stockade, over the snow, the trail now lost.
Are Nancy and Chuck actually wearing African scarves? Ridiculous.
While wearing the Covid facemasks, can this get any more ridiculous, when do they start wearing the full hazmat spacesuits with Ethiopian patterns?
They’ve lost their meatballs.
Keep working on that ED problem cupcake. You’ll get it up some day.
White women don’t wear kente cloth.
https://www.gq.com/story/nancy-pelosi-police-reform-outfit
https://thegrio.com/2020/06/08/democrats-kente-cloth-george-floyd/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/who-does-this-protect-minnesota-authorities-admit-officers-slashed-car-tires-during-protests/
“state patrol troopers strategically deflated tires” in an effort to “stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement.”
Gordon said state patrol officers targeted cars that were carrying “items used to cause harm during violent protests,” without providing any evidence that the cars contained such items.