ckaihatsu wrote:Do you *support* the Republican bill, and, if so, why?
Not sure since the Democrats blocked debate on it.
Sen. Tim Scott makes plea for police reform bill after Democrats block debate in Senate | ABC NewsABC edited out the part Sen Scott said cities like Atlanta, Minneapolis, etc has been Democrat ran for decades and could have abolished the choke hold at anytime.
Tim Scott calls Dems 'despicable' after blocking police reform billSenator Tim Scott (R-SC) remarks following JUSTICE Act voteAfter the Senate blocked the Republican police reform bill, Just and Unifying Solutions To Invigorate Communities Everywhere Act of 2020, or the JUSTICE Act, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke on the floor about his personal experiences and how they helped him write the JUSTICE Act. Full video here:
https://cs.pn/3ewhgImAfter South Carolina U.S. Senator Tim Scott’s JUSTICE Act failed to pass due to objections from Congressional Democrats, he delivered an impassioned speech in which he said a momentous opportunity had been lost. “My friends on the other side just said no,” he said. “Not no to the legislation … they just said no.”
Scott, the lone Black Republican in the Senate, had already gone before the Senate in hopes that his bill would pass, urging Democratic senators to rise above politics and support a piece of legislation that he said would have provided “resources for body cameras, for anti-lynching, for de-escalation training.”
However, many Democrats said the bill did not go far enough and refused to support it; one Democrat, Representative Dick Durbin, said the bill represented a “token, half-hearted” attempt at reform, which he later apologized for, Politico reported.
However, Scott did receive some support across the aisle. Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Doug Jones as well as Independent Angus King crossed party lines to support the bill, but that was not enough and the final vote was 55-45, CNN reported. On the other side, President Donald Trump’s spokesperson, Kayleigh McEnany, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both said they were fully behind Scott’s bill.
Still, the JUSTICE Act failed and was just four votes shy of the 60 votes it needed (McConnell changed his final vote to a “no” to allow the issue to be reconsidered at a later date) even though some Democrats joined in support of the bill, USA Today reported. One hang-up is that Democrats want to strip out the issue of qualified immunity, which makes police officers nearly impervious to lawsuits filed against them for misconduct. However, Scott called that issue a “poison pill.”
- "The actual problem is not what is being offered. It is who is offering it…. As a black man, I get the ‘who’ being the problem. It’s one of the reasons why I went to Senator McConnell and said I want to lead this conversation…. What I missed in this issue is that the stereotyping of Republicans is just as toxic to the outcomes of the most vulnerable communities in this nation…. They cannot allow this party to be seen as a party that reaches out to all communities in this nation."
Trump signed an order on June 16 in response to the calls for police reform following the death of George Floyd, USA Today reported. That order called for a national database to be created to allow police departments to track officers with histories of abuse and also called for mental health professionals to be sent out with police officers on calls where homelessness, drug addiction or mental illness may be a factor.
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