Chip Roy: “Officer Tiffany-Victoria Enriquez, Officer Kaulike Kalama, Sheriff Sheldon Gordon Whiteman, Officer Katherine Mary…”

“Officer Tiffany-Victoria Enriquez, Officer Kaulike Kalama, Sheriff Sheldon Gordon Whiteman, Officer Katherine Mary Thyne, I could go on and on 113 times with the names of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, who were killed last year in 2020--113. And we are on the floor of the House of Representatives with a bill gutting the qualified immunity that helps protect our law enforcement officers without so much as a hearing, without so much as coming back to talk to us and work with us since last June. Why? Because this is all political. This is all political. We talk about defunding. I am from Austin, Texas; $150 million cut from the police budget there. And what did my Democrat colleagues do last Friday? Jammed through $500 billion for State and local governments, funding the very Democratic cities that are gutting our law enforcement officers, taking away what they need to be able to exist. And with what happened in Austin, a 50 percent increase in murder rate. We lost the greatest cadet class we had. This bill is a sham. We should oppose it.”