Host good afternoon, all. I am miles coleman. On behalf of the charleston, columbia and greenville, South Carolina chapters of the society, i am delighted to welcome you to our event today. We are excited to be hosting senator graham and a moment. Good afternoon and welcome. Let me make a couple of brief housekeeping announcements and we will get right down to what we are here for. First, we have a pride for cle credit in South Carolina. If you would like credit for attending this event, i ask you submit a record of your attendance. Use the q a function and send a message that will be viewable only by me has your name and South Carolina bar number. About halfway through, i will ask you to do it again to make sure you are still with us. And at the conclusion, i will ask you one last time. I also want to very briefly preview a couple of upcoming events. We would love to see you there. Next week on thursday, we will be having a virtual roundtable. Next week on thursday at 2 00, we will be
Morning. Let me just say that leader mcconnell, thank you for the opportunity to have this opportunity as i approached you about the importance of this issue and ask you give me an opportunity to share some thoughts. He was kind enough to give me a chance to move this forward and have a real conversation with america about the importance of Police Reform, accountability, and trespassing, and thats exactly what the focus is on. Police reform, accountability, and transparency. Youre also smart enough to put together a really small group of senators to understand the issue , passion about the issue, and have expertise in different aspects about the senate. So this is a great team you put together and i appreciate having the opportunity to discuss the important issue of Police Reform. Too often we are having a discussion about this nation about ari supporting the Law Enforcement community or communities of color . This is a binary choice. The answer to the question of which side you choice
News conference earlier. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said he hopes to move the legislation soon and urged democrats to support the bill. Good morning, and thank you for coming out this morning and let me just say leader mcconnell, thank you for the opportunity to have this conversation as i approached you about the importance of this ish i aish issue and asked for to have a conversation with america about Police Accountability and transparency as and that exactly what the act focuses on. You are also smart enough to put together a really strong group of senators who understand the issue, passionate be the issue and expertise in different aspects of the senate. This is a great team youve put together and i appreciate having the opportunity to discuss the important issue of police reform. Let me start by simply saying that too often were having a discussion in this nation about, ary supporting the Law Enforcement community or are you supporting communities of color . This is a false
Opportunity to have this conversation as i approach you about the importance of this issue, ask that you give me an opportunity to share some thoughts, you were kind enough to give me the chance to move this forward and have a real conversation with america about theb importance of Police Reform, accountability, and transparency and thats exactly what the justice act focuses on. Its Police Reform, accountability and transparency. Youre also smart enough to put together a really strong group of senators who understand the issue of passion about the issue and also have expertise in different aspects of the senate and so this is a great team that you have put together. I appreciate having an opportunity to discuss the important issue of Police Reform. Let me start by simply saying that too often, were having a discussion in this nation about, are you supporting the Law Enforcement community or are you supporting communities of color. This is a false binary choice. If the answer to the qu
Mr. Sanders all right. Thats good, too. Mr. President , as everybody mr. President , as everybody mr. President is Everybody Knows our country faces an extraordinary unprecedented fact in the modern history of this country. Over the last several weeks, hundreds of thousands of americans from one end of the country big cities and small towns have taken to the streets to demand an end to Police Murder and brutality to rethink the nature of policing in america. In the midst of that rising up for the Police Department rethinking and murder and brutality, our country continues to suffer from the covid 18 pandemic which in a number of locations in this country iswo getting worse and which has up to this point killed over 110,000 people and infected over 2 million americans. And then on top of all of that struggle for racial justic justice, dealing with a pandemic in the midst of all of that, we have the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 18 thirties and the last number