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Until White Supremacists can be purged from Police Departments, this bill, if passed and signed into law, will be null and void.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday banning controversial police tactics and easing the way for lawsuits against officers violating suspects’ constitutional rights, although the measure’s Senate prospects were uncertain.
Democrats pushed the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” through the House by a vote of 220-212, with the support of only one Republican, just days before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin goes on trial on a state murder charge in the death of Floyd last year.
However, later on Wednesday evening, Representative Lance Gooden, the sole Republican who voted for the legislation, wrote in a post on Twitter that his vote had been a mistake and in fact he opposes the bill.
Floyd, 46, an African-American man, died when he was detained with Chauvin kneeling on his neck for nearly eight minutes. His killing sparked weeks of nationwide and global protests, many of which were led by Black Lives Matter activists.
There is only one appropriate response to the police violating citizens Constitutional rights...and that is the public taking up arms and putting a stop to it.
If you instead file a lawsuit...keep in mind where the courtroom will be...( in a Govt building)
I completely reject the OP's idea and statement on White Supremacists !!!
One solution that wasn't included in the bill is the citizen complaint process !!! Many law enforcement agency's don't have a complaint process free of intimidation or one that is taken seriously !!! Some have a complaint process that requires reporting to internal affairs of the dept. !!! The idea that the police will investigate themselves is laughable and the complaint heads directly into the trash can if its ever actually put into written form !!!
Some departments have a complaint form and a decent process and that should be required and it would provide important data on accountability !!! They should have included a national standard and if necessary tied funds to it !!!
They also neglected an opportunity to do something on asset fioriture, often referred to as highway robbery by law enforcement !!!
Perhaps their tunnel vision focus on race blinded them to real and meaningful important issues !!!
I did come across a recent SCOTUS ruling that put a crack in the dam of “qualified immunity” but it could take years before any significant water trickles through it and may only help in extrema cases !!!
The case was so offensive to the constitution the court decided to act !!! Only Justice Thomas prevented it from being unanimous but he never offered an opinion on it !!! I would love to see Justice Thomas receive a week of the same treatment and give his opinion on it !!!
Per curiam decisions handed down without briefing and oral argument generally do not get much attention, so it is understandable that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling about qualified immunity in Taylor v. Riojas might have been overlooked, even by civil rights lawyers.
But the case is significant because it is a rare instance in which the high court rejected a claim of qualified immunity and made clear that no case on point is required in order to hold a government officer liable.
There is only one appropriate response to the police violating citizens Constitutional rights...and that is the public taking up arms and putting a stop to it.
If you instead file a lawsuit...keep in mind where the courtroom will be...( in a Govt building)
That's not the answer. There's always going to be bad cops, there's no process to detect potential bad cops during the application process?
The truth is, if he never bumped into the police that day, he’d probably still be alive. * Don’t forget that the first autopsy said it was drugs but that was done by the police autopsy so of course they would clear the cop.
The truth is the cop didn’t have to hold him down for 8 minutes.
And drug laws are corrupt by nature.
You forgot
*if he hadn't been breaking the law, he'd probably still be alive. if he didn't resist arrest, he'd probably still be alive.
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