Posted on 05/25/2021 1:48:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The anniversary of George Floyd’s death was supposed to be a milestone moment, a time to mark passage of legislation to “root out systemic racism” in the criminal justice system, in the words of President Joe Biden. Instead, Floyd’s family visited Washington on Tuesday to mourn with Biden and prod Congress to act as they commemorate the loss of their brother, father and son one year ago. […]
George Floyd’s death sparked a global reckoning over racism and growing calls for police reform, but a legislative response has been elusive. Still, congressional negotiators remain optimistic about the prospects for a bill and they’ve displayed a steady solidarity that’s unusual for such talks, striking a consistently optimistic tone and never publicly sniping at each other. […]
The Democratic-controlled House approved a sweeping bill in March that would make it easier for individual police officers to be sued and charged with crimes. It would also ban chokeholds, limit no-knock warrants and create a national database of officers with histories of complaints and disciplinary problems.
That bill has gone nowhere in the Senate, where the 50 Democrats will need support from at least 10 Republicans to overcome a bill-killing filibuster. GOP lawmakers have preferred more modest changes.
While Biden set the anniversary of Floyd’s death as the initial deadline for legislation to reach his desk, the issue of police reform is a particularly politically thorny one. …
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Sen. Scott had a good bill, the Dumbs blocked it. They want the issue, not to give a black Republican s win. Discusting.
The tried using Aubery, but that couldn't get traction.
Then St. Fentanyl came along with much better video.
Poor Floyd. He was given bad fentanyl by a fang fang like operative paid for by George Soros to start a race war by MSM...backed up by twitter and Facebook.
no caps
Let me see.......Since the city of Minneapolis awarded the Floyd family $27,000,000 minus thelawyers cut, minus other “advisors’” cuts, minus the taxman’s cut, I figure they may have 8-10 million left. Still wealthy enough to get an invite to the White House to see if Joe & the Party can syphon off a little.
Criminals are now heroes...Not in my eyes. This is disgusting. These are the heroes blacks and Dems are giving blacks...
How about posting all the people involved in a killing in Chicago last weekend.
Phfffwaaaappp.
Dimentia Joe dropping off his twins.....
Joe Punk.
Meanwhile our nation’s BLM insanity has spread to our State Department and US Embassies around the the world!!
Biden State Department signals support for BLM flag to be flown at US embassies:
Report: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-state-department-blm-flag
The memo allows US diplomats to fly the Black Lives Matter flag outside of embassies!
State Department memo encourages diplomats to support BLM movement: rpt
National Review Online’s Deroy Murdock says the administration should focus on US issues instead of turning State Department into ‘PR arm of BLM’ on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’
The Department of State under President Biden issued guidance to all “Diplomatic and Consular posts” encouraging official displays of support for Black Lives Matter (BLM) on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder on May 25 and beyond, according to a new report.
According to a leaked memo from an anonymous State Department source, the department wrote that it “supports the use of the term ‘Black Lives Matter’ in messaging content” as well as in speeches and foreign diplomatic engagements on May 25 “and beyond.”
The memo allows U.S. diplomats to fly the Black Lives Matter flag outside of embassies. Fox News verified the authenticity of the memo first reported by Human Events, a conservative American political news and analysis newspaper and website.
Specifically, the memo acts as an “authorization” for agency higher-ups to “display the BLM flag on the external-facing flagpole to any Chiefs of Mission who determine such a display is appropriate in light of local conditions.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-state-department-blm-flag
In honor of George Floyd Congress is going to use his drug scales to weigh the bill.
I mourn the death of the 10th Amendment.
You know I think Republican and Democrat Senators should sponsor a bill that requires certain rules of conduct for criminals. For example,; criminals should not resist arrest, criminals should not knife passerby’s or police, criminals, who illegally possess firearms, should not fire their weapons, Potential criminals should not join gangs, rape women or men or children, should not set fires like “ Marvin the Torch”, or make exorbitant profits selling fentanyl, cocaine, or designer drugs.
In my humble opinion these simple rules, if followed, would be a big leap forward.
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