Posted on 06/08/2020 8:12:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A sweeping overhaul of police oversight and procedures is being proposed Monday by congressional Democrats in response to the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement.
House and Senate Democrats held moment of silence at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall, reading the names of George Floyd and others killed. They then knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds — now a symbol of police brutality and violence — the length of time prosecutors say Floyd was pinned under a white police officer’s knee before he died.
“We’re here to observe that pain,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, drawing on the nation’s founding with slavery.
“We’re here to respect the actions of the American people to speak out against that,” she said, before kneeling on one knee. “We are here to honor George Floyd.”
According to a draft outline obtained by The Associated Press., the Justice in Policing Act to be unveiled Monday would limit legal protections for police, create a national database of excessive-force incidents and ban police choke holds, among other changes. It outlines the most ambitious changes to law enforcement sought by Congress in years.
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is leading the effort, said called it “transformative.”
“We’re in a real moment in our country,” she said Sunday on CNN, speaking after days of massive protests set off by the death of George Floyd and other African Americans involving the police.
Bass said the package from House and Senate Democrats will be bolder than any law enforcement changes of the past decade. “It is time for police culture in many departments to change,” she said. “And we believe that the legislation will make a major step forward in that direction.”
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I hope they keep this up they continue to HANG themselves!! MOST people have had ENOUGH of this CRAP!!
I will not kneel for anyone except our LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST and ALMIGHTY GOD.
I WILL STAND with my hand over my heart for the National Anthem.
I WILL STAND with my hand over my heart for the Pledge of Allegiance.
I WILL STAND against racism, oppression or prejudice of any type toward anyone.
I WILL STAND against violence of any type.
I WILL STAND for AMERICA and all who love her.
I WILL NEVER KNEEL.
Trump is on his own. He has no coalition or posse. It’s all on him whether he wins or loses.
Embarrassing.
They think the rest of us are idiots. Maybe we are!
Exactly. Smoke and mirrors.
Watch what this hand is doing while the other does something else.
The mostly democrat controlled police unions make it almost impossible to fire a bad cop.
Another laundry for money to democrats (the unions) will keep on protecting bad cops, teachers and other bad employees no matter what legislation is passed.
Is the Pope a Commie?
This "10th amendment" thing, or the document it supports, is not recognized by Democrats. Why bother? Their country doesn't use it.
“”””A prohibition against PD’s hiring officers who have previous criminal convictions like Derek Chauvin?””””””
What was he convicted of and when?
Nancy has another “Fill In The Blanks” Bill ?
They should have been asked to do as one police officer in Massachusetts did. On stomach with hands behind back.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to police the police, correction welcome.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936. (Possible server certificate problems.)
So Democrats are once again unconstitutionally expanding the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s power, the Dems exploiting low-information voters who have probably never been taught about the fed’s limited powers.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with new patriot federal and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
The kneelers are still taller.
It doubles as a feed bag.
Trump is on his own. He has no coalition or posse.
He has each of us who will STAND with him....
what a F-ing clown show ... literally ...
Retarded pandering.
Was this for Captain David Dorn?
The Republican Congressional ads write themselves—if they show just a teeny weeny bit of spine:
“Real Americans never bend the knee to anyone.”
See my tagline.
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