The voice “It would have been different if it was white”… Biden discusses countermeasures with lawmakers on the 2nd
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Sang-heon = The funeral of Thai Nicholls (29), a black man who died from indiscriminate assault by police officers during the arrest process in the United States, was held in Memphis, Tennessee on the 1st (local time), three weeks after his death. held at the church.
A number of White House officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris, attended the funeral. The Associated Press reported that the bereaved families of George Floyd and Eric Garner, who also lost their lives after being assaulted by the police, also attended and commemorated his path.
In his memorial address, Vice President Harris characterized the incident as an act of violence against the police’s mission to ensure public safety, saying, “It was not to maintain public safety. Didn’t Nicholls have the right to be safe?” strongly criticized the behavior of
In particular, he emphasized, “As Vice President of the United States, I urge Congress to pass the George Floyd Act without delay,” and “this is non-negotiable.”
He added, “When the bill is processed, President Biden will sign it.”
The police reform bill, named the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, was proposed after George Floyd, who died in 2020 after being strangled by a white police officer.
The main point of the bill is to prevent police from strangling suspects when arresting them, and limiting immunity so that they can sue police for violating the constitutional rights of suspects.
At the time, the Floyd case sparked nationwide protests, and the House of Representatives, where the Democratic Party was the majority at the time, handled the bill twice in 2020 and 2021, but it was caught in the Senate, where Republicans occupied half of it.
According to the filibuster rule, 60 out of 100 votes were required to complete deliberation of the bill in the Senate and put it to a vote, but Republicans opposed it on the grounds of restrictions on police immunity.
White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said in a briefing that day, “I will meet with federal lawmakers and others at the White House on the 2nd to discuss the George Floyd bill and related policies.”
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At the funeral that day, Reverend Al Sharpton, a black civil rights activist, said in a memorial address that the assaulting officers would not have acted the way they did if they had been responsible for their actions. claimed
All five police officers fired for assaulting Nicholls were also black.
“We understand public safety concerns and the need to deal with crime, but we don’t become criminals and fight crime ourselves. We don’t become murderers and confront villains in the streets,” he said. “They are thugs, not cops.” criticized it.
Previously, Nicholls was indiscriminately assaulted by police during a traffic crackdown in Memphis on the 7th, and died three days later on the 10th.
Footage from the scene released later showed the police spraying him with tear gas and indiscriminately beating him, kicking him and beating him with clubs.
In this case, five officers who participated in the assault were fired and charged with second-degree murder and other charges, and two officers, including a white officer who shot a taser at Nichols, are suspended and are being investigated.
A total of 10 people have been disciplined for the incident so far, including the dismissal of two fire department first responders and their department chief for poor on-site first aid.
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