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SPEAKER SLIP-UP? Pelosi Thanks George Floyd for Sacrificing His Life For Justice
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Without Apologizing? : Nancy Pelosi Backtracks After Being Blasted for Thanking George Floyd for Sacrificing His Life for Justice
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Yolanda Yonnie Deaver, a Camden businesswoman who marched in protest after George Floyd s death, on Tuesday celebrated three guilty verdicts against his accused killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. I felt overwhelmed with joy, Deaver said as she described seeing the verdicts being announced on national television. My heart kind of skipped a beat a little bit.
Deaver last year organized a protest march to Camden s Police Administration Building, a walk that was joined by Camden s then-police chief and other officers.
On Tuesday, she still saw the wrong that took Floyd s life, but added the trial s outcome offered hope that needed changes could occur.
Pelosi tweets new response to Chauvin verdict after thanking George Floyd ‘for sacrificing your life for justice’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted Tuesday evening clarifying earlier remarks about the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin, writing, “George Floyd should be alive today,” after earlier making comments where she thanked Floyd, who died at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer last year, “for sacrificing your life for justice.”
“George Floyd should be alive today,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, wrote in a tweet that quoted her remarks from earlier in the day. “His family’s calls for justice for his murder were heard around the world. He did not die in vain. We must make sure other families don’t suffer the same racism, violence & pain, and we must enact the George Floyd #JusticeInPolicing Act.”
George Floyd was murdered almost a year ago, Biden said in remarks from the White House, urging Congress to take action and send the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to his desk for a signature. It shouldn t take a whole year to get this done, he added.
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Democrats have raised pressure on Senate Republicans to pass the bill, which would prohibit racial profiling at every level of law enforcement, ban chokeholds, carotid holds and no-knock warrants, institute a national police misconduct registry and overhaul legal protections currently afforded to law enforcement known as qualified immunity.
The legislation passed the House in March but faces an uphill battle to winning 60 votes in the Senate. Democrats have largely backed the bill, but Republicans have expressed opposition, chiefly over its provision changing qualified immunity.
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