Joe Neguse

I would contend that all life is precious, and it all deserves protection.

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.

There are issues in this proposal that we can all agree upon: A law against lynching, which I supported and this House passed months ago.

It might help good cops from doing bad things.

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.

It takes more training hours to be a hairdresser than to be a police officer.

The Justice in Policing Act is a critical step to stopping the state-sanctioned police brutality against Black Americans.

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.

We believe that all police agencies should obtain some type of accreditation before receiving Federal funds.

His death cannot be in vain.

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.

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.

What African Americans need to realize equal justice under the law is for selective enforcement and police brutality to end.

The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 heralds the urgency of transformation and the promise for all Americans of equal justice under the law.

No justice, no peace is not a threat; it is simply a description of how the world works.

I hope that we work for passage of this legislation in the House, it gets through the Senate, the President signs it, and in the year 2020 we never, ever see again what we saw a few weeks ago.

I also want to register my displeasure with the lack of a witness from the executive branch testifying before our Committee today.

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I thank my colleague from California for his support of the bill. In closing, Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Jackson Lee). The question…

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The choice, to me, is clear, and I hope my colleagues will join me in saying that refugees are welcome in America.

This remains, as I said at the beginning of my remarks, an existential threat that we all should collectively be working to combat against.