change, and 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 thou control, 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 probe. your sense of the significance of a federal investigation into the a
we have made in the justice system around putting rules around officers, unfortunately five of them still broke those rules. but i have been suggesting what we tried to do a couple years ago was to suggest all it can wait suggestions around police brutality and how we can hold officers accountable. tennessee implemented two of them. we require the escalation in the duties to intervene as i just mentioned. there are other ways we can break down this culture of police brutality by focusing on introducing the rest of those six pieces of suggestions such as banning chokeholds in strangling. exhausting all alternatives before shooting. make sure you don t shoot moving vehicles. banning the use of force continuum and requiring comprehensive training around police brutality. while we have made progress, i will say that our justice system is still a blueprint to
every police officer working the streets in this country wears a body camera. and quote. days, later than president obama announced that he supported the plea. and they lost two years of his presidency, the obama administration dedicated $43 million to more funding for police departments to obtain body worn cameras. it was incremental change with body camera footage playing a crucial role in the years says and helping to push the conversation regarding police reform forward. it falls far short of to comprehensive police reform that would address all the problems. police got renewed serious conversations of there was even managed to pass the george floyd policing act in early 2021 largely along party lines. and never made it to the floor of the senate. that bill will develop police techniques like chokeholds, carotid, rolls and other forms of deadly force. and sought to improve police training including just training against
level. you heard from president biden two days ago. okay, his reaction is trying to get the george floyd policing act across the finish line. and this political climate, is that really a reality? tim scott out today saying he is still at the negotiating table and has been for the last 18 months or so. you had that coupled with jim jordan who spoke to chuck taught a little bit. i want to play for you what he had to say and then we will talk. i don t know if there is anything you can do to stop the kind of evil we saw in that video. it sounds like you are not for any new federal regulation. i think there are all kinds of grant dollars that will go out. there s a form that can happen. why not a federal ban on chokeholds? i think you want to keep this at the state and local level. this is a law enforcement issue. if you get to the federal government involved in databases, that gets the federal government screws
it has helped push the conversation regarding police violence in our phone forward. yet, it falls far short of to comprehensive police reform which would address all of the problems necessary. floyd s death renewed serious conversations in congress. the house of representatives managed to pass the george floyd justice in policing act in early 2021 largely along party lines but it never made it to the floor of the senate for a vote. the bill would ve outlawed police techniques like chokeholds, carotid hold, and other forms of potentially deadly fourth. it s sought to improve police training. including mandating training against profiling. it would ve also banned so called no knock warrants. would ve required more use of body cameras and would have ended qualified immunity. it s a practice that prevents police officers being sued by the public. in light of tyre nichols death have been calls to revive the george floyd act, including from president biden himself. i spoke with tyreek s