Senator cory Booker Joining fellow democrats today in announcing support of new Police Reform. Supporters say the Police Reform legislation is overdue and unprecedented, democrats hope to push the bill through the house and hope to have a vote in the senate by july 4. This bill is in response to the nationwide protests. It is and it was drafted by the Judiciary Committee and the black caucus, or than 150 democrats have signed on as co authors. For those who wish we will now kneel for our moment of silence. Reporter on capitol hill house and Senate Democrats took any for nearly 9 minutes in emancipation hall before announcing the new justice and policing act. A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession that requires highly trained officers who are accountable to the public. We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change. The bill includes federal mandates the police funny and dashboard cameras, limit transfer of military weapons and a b
In Downtown Washington and ended near the u. S. Capital, where speakers outlined the legislative agenda for congress. This is about two hours and 15 minutes. I cant breathe. [indiscernible] no justice no peace no justice no peace no justice no peace tell me what democracy looks like. [indiscernible] no justice. No peace. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. What we want . Justice. When do we want it . Now. On]e whats going [marvin gaye whats going on] if we could all do this together. Let me introduce myself. Im not really important. Joe madison. I will be running this program. If we could all do this together. Let me Say Something before we get started. There are a lot of people in the media that want to try to suggest there is a division among us. That this is young versus old. White versus black. When my son walks out of the house, i pray every day he will come home. I dont care what color he is. All human life is sacred. And so, let us gather here for a purpose. Let me tell the people i
The problem is not the equipment itself, it is the utilization of it. For that, before those that have that heavy equipment is given out, there needs to be you need to be able to show a need for it in your community. Cap is number one point actually cause as they need. The hotel, you need to be held accountable. This means that you have to have policies which has its terms of engagement as to when you will take that it put that out and under what circumstances it would be used for. Hisnnot visit for protesting in this country. Cannot you read the optics on ferguson. I think it is shocking to many people in this country, all , democrats country republicans, it was shocking. And we learned from it. Hopefully. But what we want to be able to do do is to protect our Police Officers, but there had to be a time and a moment when the equipment was utilized. Has it i and being held hostage in my home, or in my bank when i am making a deposit, i want the police to be able to get there and be saf
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Have a bone in my body, i will not fail my son. I promise him im going to fight stand for him and speak for him because he is no longer there to speak for himself. This is something we demand. We paid a horrible price to be here. [indiscernible] that eric garner was killed. I am so sorry for that. Michael brown, im sorry that it has to end like this. But this is not the end because of the sea of people who said we who stood up and said we need justice. We cannot close the book. We have to carry on until justice for all, equal justice for all the victims. Despite where you are coming from. Whether sean bell or leslie work or gwen, we are all here. Please do not forget us. Dont forget that our sons died. So that we can open up the book and review what is happening, so that we can open up conversation around the nation, so that we can Start Building communities, community relations, and finally, when that happens, when we have strong laws, good cops policing our neighborhoods, then we can