Eleven days after a judge in Minnesota sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to serve 22½ years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, Gov. Jared Polis put pen to paper on a follow-up package of police accountability measures inspired in part by Floyd’s death last summer.
House Bill 1250 from Denver Democratic Reps. Leslie Herod and Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez as well as Sens. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, and Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, seeks to build on Senate Bill 217. The historic package, approved by lawmakers last year in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, banned law enforcement officers from using chokeholds, required the use of body cameras when dealing with the public and removed qualified immunity, among other things.
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