Breonna Taylor and her family deserve justice.
It is past time for comprehensive policing reform. We are working to pass the Justice In Policing Act in the Senate. Chuck Schumer
Several other lawmakers touted the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which bans chokeholds and prohibits no-knock warrants, the type of warrant police used when they raided Taylor’s apartment. The law is named after the unarmed Black man Minneapolis police killed in May.
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“One year ago today, Breonna Taylor was shot in her home by police officers. House Dems passed the #GeorgeFloydLaw to end police brutality & protect every American s right to safety & justice. The time for change is now,” tweeted Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
The government on Wednesday said authorities shut down the internet during tension and riots in the interest of maintaining law and order and in an emergency situation. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the challenges posed by cyberspace are many, which flow from its vastness and borderless character and that information in cyberspace flows fast and has the potential of being misused. During tensions and riots, suspension of telecom services and internet shutdown is done by the appropriate authorities in the states and UTs concerned in the interest of maintaining public safety and averting public emergency, as per procedures defined in the Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Amendment) Rules, 2020, he said.
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A new bill advanced out of a Kentucky state Senate committee Thursday, and if it passes into law, it would serve as the state’s (and possibly the nation’s) first blue fragility bill. What’s “blue fragility,” you ask? Well, it’s like white fragility, only you add a gun, badge and a massive ego that can’t take an insult without becoming violent. Essentially, it’s a bill that would make it a crime to insult or taunt police officers during a protest because, apparently, one Kentucky Republican who happens to be a retired police officer thinks cops need to be protected from their own tendencies to resort to violence when they feel disrespected.
February 20 2021
Demetrus Batchelor claims officers broke his tailbone at a protest in June, harassed him in the following weeks.
A Portland man is suing the city, mayor and former police chief, accusing officers of fracturing his tailbone during a protest in June and harassing him in the months that followed with baseless traffic tickets, arrests and divulging information about his criminal past including compelling prostitution to fellow protesters.
The original incident happened early in the morning of June 4, after a racial justice demonstration in downtown Portland. The plaintiff, 34-year-old Demetrus Batchelor, had attended the protest and other demonstrations, attempting to act as a calming influence and to deescalate situations before they turned violent, according to the complaint filed Feb. 8 in federal court.
The Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would require police officers to try to stop their colleagues from using excessive force, a law enforcement accountability push that comes in the wake of George Floyd's ki