In the wake of the 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Sens. Cory Booker and Tim Scott spent months negotiating a police reform deal they hoped could attract enough Republican votes to pass the Senate, after the Democratic-controlled House passed a police revision bill named after Floyd. Those talks collapsed, however, even after Democrats privately scaled back the proposal to avoid controversial changes to qualified immunity, which shields police officers from lawsuits.
Scott also discussed his desire to pursue reforms at lunch with his colleagues on Tuesday, although Sen. Lindsey O. Graham , who was involved in the talks last time, did not express optimism about much coming out of them.“I don’t know if anything’s going to happen,” Graham said, adding that a few liberal Democrats’ calls to “defund the police” in 2020 “hangs over things now.”show Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, being brutally beaten, kicked and pepper-sprayed by Memphis police officers.
Scott, the Senate’s lone Black Republican, is traveling to Iowa in the coming weeks, sparking speculation that he may be considering a presidential run. Democrats hope Biden will put pressure on Congress to act in his upcoming State of the Union address, and the president plans to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus at the White House to discuss reforms on Thursday.
On Monday, Biden urged Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. “I think we should do it right now,” he said. “We should have done it before.”
It’s a local problem. Find out what is wrong with Memphis PD. 7 out of 8 people fired so far are African American. That is 100% contrary to the white supremecy narrative.
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Tim Scott...black turncoat..and Repubs won't pass a law...