The U.S. House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in March, but the bill has stalled in the even-divided Senate. The measure would prohibit federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling.
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Members of George Floyd s family are in Washington Tuesday meeting with President Biden and top congressional leaders, one year to the day after his death at the hands of a white police officer rocked the country and sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.
Floyd s relatives first traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Karen Bass, who is one of the leaders of the ongoing bipartisan, bicameral negotiations to reach a deal on police reform legislation. I stand here to renew the commitment that we will get this bill on President Biden s desk, Bass said in remarks to reporters after the meeting with Floyd s family. We will work until we get the job done. It will be passed in a bipartisan manner. And so that is a commitment that we are making, [that] I m making personally for the family.
George Floyd s family meets with Biden and lawmakers on anniversary of death By Grace Segers George Floyd’s family meets with Biden
Washington Members of George Floyd s family are in Washington Tuesday meeting with President Biden and top congressional leaders, one year to the day after his death at the hands of a white police officer rocked the country and sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.
Floyd s relatives first traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Karen Bass, who is one of the leaders of the ongoing bipartisan, bicameral negotiations to reach a deal on police reform legislation.
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When Felicia Simmons organized what became the largest George Floyd rally at the Jersey Shore last June, she tasked each speaker. “I’m not going to tell you what to say,” she told them, but you must offer the demonstrators at least one tangible thing they can do: register to vote, learn the names of their local officials, join a community group.
“When you stand with somebody who is in the midst of those emotional places, you can either pour hate into them and unleash something ugly,” Simmons said in an interview. “Or you can pour something into it that is mindful and powerful. That directs them towards something. That s what leaders do, right? Not just get people out there in the streets to cry.”