TODAY: Civil rights leaders, including @Sifill_LDF, are demanding federal action to reform our nation’s police departments. This starts with passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act & bringing an end to qualified immunity. 
"We have seen the officer who killed Eric Garner & the one who killed Philando Castile, and the one who killed Terence Crutcher, & the one who killed Tamir Rice, and those responsible for the death of Freddie Gray...& Breonna Taylor...were not held accountable for those deaths."
"[Qualified immunity's] interpretation by courts has become so distorted that it routinely insulates police officers from liability in cases in which they slam innocent residents to the ground causing brain damage, shot bystanders, or killed innocent Black men..."--@Sifill_LDF
The Act shifts the criminal intent standard of Section 242, which will make it easier to prosecute law enforcement officers engaging in deadly misconduct by lowering the criminal intent standard--an essential step in holding law enforcement accountable for violating this statute.
"When Officer Chauvin looks into the camera as he kills George Floyd, he is looking at us. He is daring us to prove him wrong. And we're calling on Congress to prove him wrong and move forward the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act." --@Sifill_LDF
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