Tyre Nichols’ mother RowVaughn Wells demanded Congress pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. “If we don’t—that blood—the next child that dies, that blood is going to be on their hands,” she said.
, heavy-hitting speakers blasted the cops involved, members of Congress, and the country’s failure—once again—to protect Black lives from death at the hands of police.
The bill, stuck in Washington, D.C.’s gridlock politics, would forbid the use of chokeholds, ban no-knock warrants, end the “qualified immunity” of officers from civil suits, and create a registry of so-called bad cops, among other provisions.the five Black officers charged with murdering Nichols“What is so personal to me is that five Black men, who wouldn’t have had a job in a police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad, in the city that Dr.
“Mothers around the world, when their babies are born, pray to God when they hold that child, that that body and that life will be safe for the rest of his life,” said Vice President Harris, one of the first invited to speak at the funeral. “Yet we have a mother and a father who mourn the life of a young man who should be here today.”“Let our memory of Tyre shine a light, a path toward peace and justice,” added Harris, as Wells emotionally applauded her calls for police reform.
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