George Floyd s family joined by leaders to discuss police reform bill named after him
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) The family of George Floyd joined Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and other leaders Saturday afternoon to discuss the police reform bill that was named in George s memory.
The purpose behind the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is to improve community-police relations and eliminate unnecessary deaths of unarmed African Americans in encounters with police officers. We don t come here today with anger, we come here with a sense of duty, said Rep. Jackson Lee. This bill is a bill that will speak to the hearts and minds of those who have been harmed by wrong kind of policing standards, and it will end profiling. It will ensure that there will be a standard for excessive force.
Nearly a year after a bystander’s video of George Floyd’s death sent shock waves across the world, prosecutors and defense attorneys face a seemingly insurmountable task in the trial of the officer charged with killing him: choosing an impartial jury.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the murder and manslaughter case against ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill’s 18th-floor courtroom. By the time the prospective jurors arrive for questioning, the state’s prosecutors and defense attorney Eric Nelson will have mined their 14-page questionnaires in search of anything that indicates overt bias.
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Holly Bailey, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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