I have the honor as serving as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. The caucus is known as the conscious of the congress. Andas established in 1971 has fought to address Police Brutality directed at africanamericans. Three weeks ago the world witnessed a horrific crime in minneapolis. The slow murder of george floyd. His tragic death has galvanized the nation to take a deeper look at our history because black americans have sadly marching for over 100 years to bring attention to this gross injustice. Black americans have been marching against police abuse and for the police to protect and serve communities. In the 1950s news cameras exposed the horrors of racism. They exposed to the treatment of people who challenged the system. Cameras exposed to the world that black americans did not have the same protections, freedom of speech, the right to assemble and protest beard years later, it is the cell phone camera that has exposed the continuation of a violent directed at africanam
Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
Said hes not interested in bringing the George Floyd Justice in policing act to the floor of the senate for consideration. Any response to democrats offering that paradigm shifting legislation, Mitch Mcconnell then assigned the task of coming up with a senate bill to perkins within a couple of days came cowith me bill failing to hold Police Accountable and thats what the senate will run with an unfortunately thats not the solution problem that everyone knows exists. So i guess theres still hope that the George Floyd Justice in policing act will pass the senate. Havent given up hope yet but weve got a long fight ahead. Why was that senate bill by tim scott week . Why couldnt it be a place to start from or build on . Its unfortunately only call for studying the issue and offers no Accountability Measures and so really, the proper framework would be more comprehensive George Floyd Justice in policing. Thats really the starting point because its deals with the universe, the entire universe
Your perseverance and service to this nation, both the past, present and in the future too. Things arent getting a whole lot better any time soon, i fear. I would ask consent that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. As a hearing on the border we havent had one for quite a few months, so i obviously need to use a chart. Thats really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. Weve held i think close to 40 hearings on some aspect of the issues on the border and with our broken immigration system, began keeping this chart on unaccompanied children but then as the whole issue with people coming across and exploiting our asylum laws coming as families, the problem just exploded in late 2018 and into 2019, and the main reason i want to show this chart, youll see the gold colored bars are single adults, down slightly, pretty persistent, pretty stable for the, you know, eight years this chart represents. What you do see, though, in red is unaccompanied children, blue
Republicans putso forth a propol by the senators of t south carolina. Weve only had the bill for a few hours, but what is clear is the Senate Republican proposal on policing doesnt rise to the moment. The democratic bill has a ban on federal drug cases while the republican bill requires data. The democratic bill has a publicly available nationwide database on misconduct the republican bill would keep such information almost shielded from the public view. If dans choke holds and tacti tactics. The republican bill purports to chokehold but only those that restrict air flow and block blood flow and provide exceptions when deadly force is needed. Who determines when deadly force is needed, usually the police themselves. Usually the police the republican bill is silent on racial profiling of local policp departments and perhaps the greatest flaw in the republican proposal is that it is missing the real meaningful accountability for individual officers misconduct. There are no refunds to qua