Earlier this week, during the gathering of the House Judiciary Committee, Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond had a few choice words for his Republican colleague, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, during a hearing on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act according to The Hill.
The main issue in the police reform bill deals with amending policies and laws that tend to favor police officers in addition to giving them unmitigated powers, specifically against people of color.
In a sharp rebuke, Richmond said, “As a black male who went to the fifth-best public high school in the country, who was a victim of excessive force, who has a black son, who has worries that you all don’t, and to my colleagues, especially the ones that keep introducing amendments that are a tangent and a distraction from what we’re talking about, you all are white males.”
“I’m not even interested in studying the Klan or sovereign citizens right now, because that is not the imminent threat that black men face on a daily basis, and right now, too often, it is law enforcement—those who were sworn to protect and to serve,” Richmond said.
FIERY: Rep. Cedric Richmond and Rep. Matt Gaetz spar during House debate pic.twitter.com/oIpBFfGa2N
— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2020
