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With Slow Progress On Federal Level, Police Reform Remains Patchwork Across U.S.


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Originally published on April 27, 2021 3:48 pm
One week ago, people celebrated in the streets of Minneapolis as a judge read the guilty verdicts in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd.
In the days since, the Justice Department announced it would investigate whether the police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was killed by police, engage in a pattern or practice of discrimination or excessive force.
But even as advocates and family members of those killed by police welcomed those developments, they said the need for structural change to policing has not disappeared a point underscored, they said, by the police killings of Black people during and since the Chauvin trial in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Columbus, Ohio, and Elizabeth City, N.C. ....

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Ending 'Qualified Immunity' For Police Was Key To Texas' George Floyd Act. It Went Nowhere In The Legislature


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Rowena Jesse, 62, touches a mural of George Floyd in Houston’s Third Ward on April 20, 2021, after Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of his murder.
Several successor bills to House Bill 88 have advanced to the Senate, but they do not include one significant part of the original bill – limiting qualified immunity for police officers.
Nearly one year after the killing of George Floyd, a bill in the Texas Legislature commemorating him now survives in pieces.
But a core piece of the George Floyd Act limiting qualified immunity for police is effectively done.
State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, is the author of the original George Floyd Act, officially designated ....

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Impelled By Tragedy, Police Reform Advocates Make Meaningful, If Uneven, Progress Across Region


Elaine Maestas remembers her sister, Elisha Lucero, going out of her way to help people.
“Even if it was like the last of her money, the last 20 dollars, and she knew you needed gas to get to work, didn t matter if you were a friend, a family member or somebody that she just met, she would help you out,” Maestas said.
Lucero was a pillar for her family. She was a loving aunt to Maestas’s children and a caregiver for her father when he became ill. But after she got in a car accident, Maestas said, “we really noticed a drastic, drastic change – that she was starting to not really be herself.” ....

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