passed but it s unclear what exactly that would entail in the current environment. democrats tried to push through the george floyd justice and policing act back in 2021, that would have included creating a registry for employees misconduct it also would have banned chokeholds and put restrictions on no knock warrants, now, that passed the house, it did not pass the senate. but senator cory booker a democrat was engaged in bipartisan talks with senator tim scott, a republican of south carolina. but those talks did eventually fall apart back in 2021, one of the sticking points was the issue of qualified immunity which offers immunity for police officers that prevents them being sued in civil court. senator dick der man a top democrat want to see booker and scott sit down together again to try to hammer out details regarding police reform, take a listen what he had to say ythis is a call for all of us to be honest about the situation, i m
the sixth to face action following the death of the 29 year old black man earlier this month. the other five officers that were fired initially have all been charged with murder, with shocking footage released over the weekend showing the group kicking and beating mr nichols as he called for help. the swift action of the memphis police department in sacking and charging the officers and disbanding the so called scorpion special unit they belonged to has been praised. but lawmakers on capitol hill have been anything but swift. protesters and civil rights activists are calling on presidentjoe biden to use mr nichols s death to gain support for the george floyd justice in policing act which was introduced in 2021. an officer has been suspended over the death of tyre nichols in memphis the sixth to face action the bill passed the democratic controlled house at the time but failed to get enough support to pass through the senate. it would see a federal ban on the use of chokeholds by po
many elected officials, she said, why does this keep happening? and i think it is a question we should all be asking. i think there is legislation on the hill right now, the wagner ministration has proposed, it is stuck there, hopefully we will do something to try to pass it. the biden administration has proposed. but we have to be asking, are police being trained in the right way, are we recruiting the right type of people? there are some improvements after george floyd, in terms of cameras on police, no chokeholds, things like that, but we have to go much further. wejust that, but we have to go much further. we just can t keep with this happening, it is a horrorfor every mother that is out there watching that video, every person. ambassador hartley, thank you so
meant the deaths of real people and the upending of several lives. she should go as the creator of the culture that created the scorpion unit. there s a lot of stuff to do federally. there s a lot of stuff to do in memphis and in the state legislature. this is not about police reform and legislation. this is about uprooting and upending culture which is terrorize black people in america. but with beginning of policing systems. susan, i want to take a listen to exchange chuck todd had with congressman jim jordan on police reform today. why not a federal ban on chokeholds? that seems to be agreed upon. full federal ban on chokeholds? for the best training possible but when i m not for is what we saw there. i don t know that any training and even. there is no chokeholds there. what they did was just continue to beat this man. i don t know that the answer. we ll look at what we think makes sense to help this.
others. but we also need to deal with the fact that the infrastructure created the scorpion unit in the first place. and it allowed them to act this way. so just like when we banned chokeholds, what policing is about, if the incentive structure continues to allow this to happen over and over again, they will just find another way. they will just find another piece of infrastructure to carry this out. so unless there is a deeper systemic overhaul, we are going to continue to move things around, you know, racism is like water pouring over a floor with holes in it. it will always find the cracks. so unless we change the actual floor, and push out the ceiling, we will continue to get the same results over and over again. i will come back to you on this question of what an alternative would look like. but first of, all i want to bring you in, because you have the doj now launching a civil rights your sense of the significance of a federal investigation into the actions of these now fire