{"id":15681,"date":"2020-06-26T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/house-democrats-pass-police-reform-bill-that-will-likely-be-blocked-by-senate\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:59:00","slug":"house-democrats-pass-police-reform-bill-that-will-likely-be-blocked-by-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-democrats-pass-police-reform-bill-that-will-likely-be-blocked-by-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"#House Democrats pass police reform bill that will likely be blocked by Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#House Democrats pass police reform bill that will likely be blocked by Senate<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 25, 2020 |<\/span> 8:59pm <\/p>\n

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\n House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a news<\/a> conference ahead of the House vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020. <\/span>
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\n House Democrats app<\/a>roved a police reform bill Thursday in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota \u2014 but Republicans said the vote was a PR stunt that wasted an opportunity for consensus.<\/p>\n

The Justice in Policing Act passed 236-181 over Republican warnings that the bill won\u2019t pass the Senate or reach President Trump\u2019s desk. Three Republicans and all Democrats voted in favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf measures are not enough. Pretend sham measures are not enough,\u201d said Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

The bill would restrict chokeholds and ban federal agents from conducting no-knock drug raids. It would curtail transfers of military equipment to police, create an officer misconduct registry, end qualified immunity from lawsuits and lower the threshold to federally prosecute officers if they show \u201creckless disregard\u201d for someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

A competing Republican proposal written by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) was blocked from a vote by Senate Democrats on Wednesday and Democrats blocked GOP amendments to the House bill in committee.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said \u201cit would be a moral failure to accept anything less than transformational change.\u201d<\/p>\n

But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that Pelosi \u201chas been all politics, putting us on a course for failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

With different parties leading the House and Senate, successful legislation general<\/a>ly is negotiated between party leaders.<\/p>\n

Republican opposition centered largely on elimination of qualified immunity, though some conservatives support the idea. The GOP Senate plan also would not bar the transfer of military equipment and its misconduct registry would not be public.<\/p>\n

Rep. John Rutherford (R-Fla.), a former sheriff, defended qualified immunity, saying it doesn\u2019t apply for blatant misconduct and protects cops from ruinous lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people in this room have no idea what it\u2019s like to determine in a high-stress situation whether a suspect is pulling out a gun or a cellphone,\u201d Rutherford said. \u201cPolice officers don\u2019t get to watch a slow motion video over and over again to figure out what to do. That\u2019s why qualified immunity exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler speaks during a press event to discuss the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.<\/span>EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Senate Republican bill would incentivize departments to restrict chokeholds, purchase and use body-worn cameras and keep information on use-of-force incidents and no-knock raids. It would make lynching a federal crime, create a commission to study conditions of black men and boys and fund black police officer recruitment.<\/p>\n

Multiple House Republicans took aim at Democrats on Thursday for not attempting to reduce the power of police unions to shield problematic officers from being fired.<\/p>\n

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), the lone Republican co-sponsor of a bill to end qualified immunity, said he opposed the Democratic bill for its \u201cattempt to federalize local police\u201d and said it glaringly \u201cignores the most serious problem we face: the protection of bad cops by collective bargaining agreements that make it all-but impossible to fire them.\u201d<\/p>\n

African-American Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said \u201cwe have failed to do one simple thing: empower police chiefs to permanently fire bad cops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurd said he wished Democrats worked with Republicans to find consensus, as happened with coronavirus relief bills this year. \u201cToday we are missing an opportunity to pass an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are missing an opportunity to do our part to prevent another black person from dying in police custody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats, meanwhile, took turns praising the bill.<\/p>\n

Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), a former Orlando police chief under consideration to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden\u2019s running mate, said good police officers \u201cneed us to help them improve the profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) trashed the Republican Senate bill as having \u201cabout as much teeth as a newborn baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid congressional gridlock, Trump last week signed an executive order to create a national system for tracking police misconduct, encourage departments to send social<\/a> workers on some nonviolent police calls and incentivize officer training programs that teach a ban on chokeholds in most instances.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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