A GOP-backed police reform bill stalled in the Senate Wednesday amid historic protests against police brutality across the country, leaving the issue in limbo just one month after George Floyd’s gruesome death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis.
Police used a chokehold in the death of Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis; officers used a no-knock warrant in the incident that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman in Louisville, Kentucky.
... You have none of the civil rights leaders behind you,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday, citing opposition to the bill from dozens of civil rights groups such as the NAACP, as well as the attorney who is representing the families of Floyd and Taylor.
The House is expected Thursday to vote on and pass a more far-reaching police reform bill, which includes an outright ban on chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
But Republicans refused to take up a version of that bill in the Senate, saying that Democrats wish to inappropriately “federalize” police reform all HuffPost superfans!
