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发帖数: 76 | 1 WASHINGTON — 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.
"The martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of
national anguish as we grieve for the black Americans killed by police
brutality today," Pelosi said. "This moment of national anguish is being
transformed into a movement of national action as Americans from across the
country peacefully protest to demand an end to injustice. Today, with the
justice and policing at the Congress is standing with those fighting for
justice and taking action." |
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