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I rise to honor the career of Dwight Gardner, who recently announced his retirement after providing decades of service to the State of Colorado. He most recently served on my staff as the regional director for southeast Colorado. Dwight…
For Eric Garner--and yes, Philonise, for your brother George--we need to outlaw chokeholds.
For Tamir Rice, a child who was shot by police while playing in a park with a toy gun, we need to help communities reform public safety and change the culture of law enforcement.
If officers don't have qualified immunity to follow their training and protocols, I don't know a single person who would want to become a law enforcement officer in today's world.
We don't know this week how many times an officer used a Taser or fired their weapon or how many times individuals were injured while they were in police custody.
Thank you, Ms. Gupta. Your testimony certainly underscores why the Justice in Policing Act is so necessary.
We believe that all police agencies should obtain some type of accreditation before receiving Federal funds.
What happened to your brother, Mr. Floyd, and what happened to Breonna Taylor is truly an outrage.
I would contend that all life is precious, and it all deserves protection.
It takes a village to allow for the persistent, systematic murder of Black Americans by our government, and this has got to stop.
Our government murdered George Floyd and countless Black Americans.
We also believe that we need to immediately rescind the Sessions memo so that the Department's Civil Rights Division, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, can immediately restore the use of consent decrees where appropriate.
It is past time that Congress banned chokeholds and other harmful police tactics that have led to far too many deaths.
The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 heralds the urgency of transformation and the promise for all Americans of equal justice under the law.
We need to abandon that dangerous rhetoric, we need to abandon the idea of 'law and order,' and we need to embrace a 'peace and justice' mantra that enhances public safety and assures justice for all.