Comprehensive reform bill aims to restore the trust between the community and police
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria voted for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (H.R. 1280), a sweeping police reform bill aimed at promoting accountability within law enforcement and ending racial profiling.
“We must restore the trust between communities and our police force, and we can’t do that without corrective action to end unlawful and unacceptable behavior,” said Congresswoman Luria. “This bill takes a comprehensive and commonsense approach to improving public safety that ultimately makes our police force stronger without cutting funding.”
The Justice in Policing Act of 2021:
-Prohibits federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial profiling and mandates training on racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling for all law enforcement.
-Bans chokeholds, carotid holds, and no-knock warrants at the federal level and limits the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local law enforcement.
-Mandates the use of dashboard cameras and body cameras for federal officers and requires state and local law enforcement to ensure the use of police body cameras.
-Establishes a National Police Misconduct Registry to prevent officers who are fired from moving to another jurisdiction without any accountability.
-Reforms qualified immunity so that individuals are not barred from recovering damages when police violate their constitutional rights.
-Establishes public safety innovation grants for community-based organizations to create local commissions and task forces to help communities to re-imagine and develop concrete, just and equitable public safety approaches.
-Creates law enforcement development and training programs to develop best practices.
-Requires state and local law enforcement agencies to report use of force data, disaggregated by race, sex, disability, religion, age.
Creates a grant program for state attorneys general to develop authority to conduct independent investigations into problematic police departments.
-Establishes a Department of Justice task force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution and enforcement efforts of federal, state and local governments in cases related to law enforcement misconduct.
Congresswoman Luria also cosponsored the Justice in Policing Act in the 116th and 117th Congress. It received the support of civil rights organizations, including Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, National African American Clergy Network, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), Black Millennial Convention, and the National Urban League.
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It is interesting that while two “PEOPLE OF COLOR,” one a BLACK dude, the other a Hmong, both wearing police uniforms and badges stood there looking on while George Floyd was spending his last eight minutes on earth, we never hear about them, at all.
And while Congresswoman Luria vigorously slaps herself on the back to congratulate herself, and by extension, the pack of Democrats she is a part of, the “ENEMY WITHIN,” as Nancy Pelosi appropriately calls them, for that is what they are, a malignant growth on our body politic in the United States of America, let’s go back TWENTY (20) years to Feb. 27, 2001 and the Text of President Bush’s 2001 Address to Congress, where we find as follows:
As government promotes compassion, it also must promote justice.
Too many of our citizens have cause to doubt our nation’s justice when the law points a finger of suspicion at groups instead of individuals.
All our citizens are created equal and must be treated equally.
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Earlier today, I asked John Ashcroft, the attorney general, to develop specific recommendations to end racial profiling.
It’s wrong, and we will end it in America.
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In so doing, we will not hinder the work of our nation’s brave police officers.
They protect us every day, often at great risk.
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But by stopping the abuses of a few, we will add to the public confidence our police officers earn and deserve.
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And in 2003, long before Pelosi’s MOB took control of our House of Representatives, turning it into a high-priced brothel, the United States Department of Justice issued a policy document entitled “Guidance Regarding The Use of Race By Federal Law Enforcement Agencies,” https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2010/12/15/guidance_on_race.pdf and if one simply scrolls down to page 3, and my goodness, if a simple-minded bumpkin from out in the wilds of America that exist outside of Congresswoman Luria’s 2d Congressional District of Virginia can do that, you would think a high intellectual like the Congresswoman could do the same, and would have done the same before coming here to take credit for something done long ago by others, one would come to the section entitled “The Constitutional Framework,” (Democrats, however, don’t use that same Constitution, as it was written by slave-owning misogynistic, WHITE SUPREMACIST/WHITE NATIONALISTS, and they don’t believe in our laws, either, so they would be ignorant of this reality of what comes next), which is a series of United States Supreme Court cases and other court cases which made it clear at least as far back as 1996, that “if law enforcement adopts a policy, employs a practice, or in a given situation takes steps to initiate an investigation of a citizen BASED SOLELY upon that citizen’s race, WITHOUT MORE, then a violation of the equal protection clause has occurred.”
With respect to “racial profiling,” the conclusion of Chavez v. Illinois State Police, 251 F.3rd 612, 635 (7th Cir. 2001), is informative:
III. Conclusion
Notwithstanding the disposition of this case, we recognize the destructive effects of racial and ethnic profiling by any police agency.
Plaintiffs have not proven that the Operation Valkyrie officers of the Illinois State Police stop, detain, and search African-American and Hispanic motorists on the basis of racial or ethnic profiling.
Yet, unfortunately, the oft-cited public perception that race and ethnicity play a role in law enforcement decisions on Illinois highways will no doubt remain.
The ISP has asserted throughout this litigation that they do not condone race-based law enforcement action; much of the evidence in this case indicates that they endeavor to conduct police activity through means that respect constitutional rights.
How to change public perception and demonstrate compliance with constitutional requirements is a matter the State of Illinois may wish to consider.
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Changing that public perception, however, becomes next to impossible when we have people like Elaine Luria and Nancy Pelosi and her MOB of Democrats DEMONIZING the police, without evidence, of course, because Democrats are driven by emotion, not facts, so that they can pander to the BLACK community for political support, which is why the Democrats are properly called “THE ENEMY WITHIN,” which they most certainly are!
Bob says
What about profiling out of state license plates ( as done regularly on the eastern shore) for revenue generating , tickets?
Paul Plante says
That’s called business.
As long as they discriminate against out-of-state plates evenly, not picking out one, say, a northern state, nobody has a problem with it, and besides, who are you going to sue?
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And this story about Congresswoman Elaine Luria voting for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (H.R. 1280), which she tries to tell us is a sweeping police reform bill aimed at promoting accountability within law enforcement and ending racial profiling, which was actually done by George W. Bush back in 2001, and the United States Supreme Court before that, saying that “We must restore the trust between communities and our police force, and we can’t do that without corrective action to end unlawful and unacceptable behavior,” which has her judging something she is totally ignorant of, takes us back to a Newser article entitled “House Cancels Thursday Session Over Attack Fears – The Senate has not followed suit” by Luke Roney on Mar. 3, 2021, where we had as follows:
(Newser) – The House of Representatives has canceled its Thursday session over reports of a possible plot by an “identified militia group” to attempt a repeat of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.
One Democratic lawmaker tells the Hill that there is “growing concern about threats to the Capitol and Democratic lawmakers in particular tomorrow.”
Votes that had been planned for Thursday have been moved to Wednesday, including a police reform bill named in honor of George Floyd, per USA Today.
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Yes, people, the Democrats are “honoring” George Floyd, because like Willy Horton, he is one of theirs, while the police they are demonizing are “THE ENEMY!”
Now, truthfully, does anyone really believe that George Floyd was a victim of “racial profiling,” given that one of the cops who stood there while he was being killed was BLACK?
According to the version of reality that exists in the alternate universe of Elaine Luria and Nancy Pelosi and her MOB of Democrats, there was George, an upstanding, law abiding BLACK dude coming home from church choir practice, and these rogue cops, including a BLACK dude and Hmong, spy him walking along and say to each other, “HEY, LOOK, A BLACK DUDE, I BET HE IS SOME KIND OF CRIMINAL BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS BLACK DUDES ARE ALL CRIMINALS, SO LET’S GO **** HIM UP BAD AND KILL HIM!”
So now, to protect all the rest of the George Floyd’s out there, it is necessary for the Democrats to honor him and set him up on a pedestal, which takes us back in time to an article entitled “Obama says mistrust of police corroding America” by Darlene Superville on 28 Sept. 2014, where we have the Barack half of “me and Barack” spouting off as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) – The widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Missouri exists in too many other communities and is having a corrosive effect on the nation, particularly on its children, President Barack Obama says.
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And with respect to that “unarmed” BLACK man in Missouri that Hussein is whining about there, a Marketwatch article entitled “Justice Department finds no evidence for ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’” by Steve Goldstein published Mar. 4, 2015 lays out the actual facts of the matter, as follows:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” became a rallying cry in protests last year over racially motivated police brutality – but a Justice Department report released Wednesday says the facts don’t support the alleged incident at its heart.
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Which in turn takes us to an article in THE WRAP on 28 Aug. 2014, where we had:
Former U.S. Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out about the events in Ferguson, Mo.
On Thursday, Clinton made her first remarks on the tense and racially charged situation that followed the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9.
“This is what happens when the bonds of trust and respect that hold any community together fray,” Clinton said at a tech conference in San Francisco.
She also sympathized with Brown’s family.
“Losing a child is every parent’s greatest fear and an unimaginable loss,” Clinton said.
“Watching the recent funeral for Michael Brown, as a mother, as a human being, my heart just broke for his family.”
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For the record, the “child” Hillary Clinton was mourning as a “mother,” was a 6’4″, 292 lb strongarm robber and bully out in Ferguson, Missouri last seen in a convenient store security camera video roughing up and terrorizing a small dude half Michael Brown’s size, while robbing him, which takes us back to the Marketwatch article as follows:
The Justice Department released a report on the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson.
To be sure, the report finds “widespread racial bias” in the department and unreasonable use of force, as well as a focus on revenue over public safety.
But it did not back the narrative that helped spur the protests in the city and around the country – namely, that Brown had effectively surrendered peacefully to Wilson.
As the report states: “Although there are several individuals who have stated that Brown held his hands up in an unambiguous sign of surrender prior to Wilson shooting him dead, their accounts do not support a prosecution of Wilson.”
“As detailed throughout this report, some of those accounts are inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence; some of those accounts are materially inconsistent with that witness’s own prior statements with no explanation, credible for otherwise, as to why those accounts changed over time.”
“Certain other witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts, admitting that they did not witness the shooting or parts of it, despite what they initially reported either to federal or local law enforcement or to the media.”
While some witnesses say Brown held his hands up at shoulder level with his palms facing outward “for a brief moment,” the same witnesses said Brown then charged Wilson, according to the report.
The prosecutors “concluded that Brown did in fact reach for and attempt to grab Wilson’s gun, that Brown could have overpowered Wilson, which was acknowledged even by Witness 101, and that Wilson fired his weapon just over his own lap in an attempt to regain control of a dangerous situation.”
“Witness 101” said Brown was shot in the back, but three autopsies concluded Brown had no entry wounds in his back, the report said.
Even clearer was this footnote: “The media has widely reported that there is witness testimony that Brown said, ‘Don’t shoot’ as he held his hands above his head.”
“In fact, our investigation did not reveal any eyewitness who stated that Brown said, ‘Don’t shoot.'”
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And of course, with their First Amendment protections, the “media” can and does print all kinds of BULL**** with impunity, ,and there is another case of it right there, which takes us back to Hussein Obama on 28 Sept. 2014, to wit:
He blames the feeling of wariness on persistent racial disparities in the administration of justice.
Obama said these misgivings only serve to harm communities that are most in need of effective law enforcement.
“It makes folks who are victimized by crime and need strong policing reluctant to go to the police because they may not trust them,” he said Saturday night in an address at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner.
“And the worst part of it is it scars the hearts of our children,” Obama said, adding that it leads some youngsters to unnecessarily fear people who do not look like them and others to constantly feel under suspicion no matter what they do.
“That is not the society we want,” he said.
“It’s not the society that our children deserve.”
Obama addressed the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown carefully but firmly, saying his death and the raw emotion it produced had reawakened the country to the fact that “a gulf of mistrust” exists between residents and police in too many communities.
The shooting sparked days of violent protests and racial unrest in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
The police officer who shot Brown was white.
“Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement – guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness,” said Obama, who has spoken of enduring similar treatment as a younger man.
He said significant racial disparities remain in the enforcement of law, from drug sentencing to application of the death penalty, and that a majority of Americans think the justice system treats people of different races unequally.
There was more gun violence Saturday night in Ferguson when a police officer investigating suspicious activity at a closed community center was shot in the arm.
The wounded officer is expected to survive and the police were looking for two suspects early Sunday.
Authorities said they didn’t believe the shooting was related to demonstrations that were taking place at about the same time to protest the killing of Brown.
Obama noted that black girls are more likely than their white peers to be suspended, jailed and physically harassed, and that black women struggle daily with “biases that perpetuate oppressive standards for how they’re supposed to look and how they’re supposed to act.”
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Which takes us to a CNN by Peter Hamby on October 15, 2014, to wit:
Vice President Joe Biden, in a closed-door meeting with black clergy in South Carolina on Tuesday, referred to himself as “the only white boy on the east side of Wilmington” as he recalled his days as a Delaware public defender and pressed faith leaders to elect Democrats this year.
Biden was in South Carolina for the day to support local Democrats in competitive races.
Biden predicted dire consequences for Democrats if Republicans win full control of Congress in November.
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So, yes, people, so long as Democrats like Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Elaine Luria keep stoking the fires of racial division and demonizing the police for partisan political gain for themselves, I suspect we are going to have racial divisions far into the future.
He added, “If we win, will turn things aroun
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of Democrat “racial profiling” and pandering for Black votes here in the United States of America by DEMONIZING people with white skin, which is so very racist of the Democrats, let’s go back to an article in The Daily Caller entitled “Hillary Tells Black Church White People Must End ‘Systemic Racism’” by Alex Pfeiffer, White House Correspondent, on April 20, 2016, where we had as follows:
PHILADELPHIA — In a visit to a black church Wednesday, Hillary Clinton told the predominately African-American audience that it is the “responsibility of white people” to end systemic racism and incorrectly stated a popular hip-hop phrase in saying we will “ride and die.”
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See, people, it is that simple – everything wrong in the world is the fault of white people, period.
Getting back to the story:
Clinton was visiting the St. Paul’s Baptist Church along with “The Mothers of the Movement” and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Mothers of the Movement consisted of mothers who had lost loved ones in police shootings.
The panel included the mother of Sandra Bland and the fiancee of Sean Bell.
The stated topics of the event were police brutality, mass incarceration, gun violence and racism.
“We have to be honest about systemic racism and particularly the responsibility of white people, not just people in public life but all of us,” Hillary said.
She later said at the event, “We all have implicit biases.”
“They are almost in the DNA going back probably millennia.”
“And what we need to do is be more honest about that and surface them.”
Clinton added, “I don’t have the answers, I’m not a behavioral psychologist or anything, but I think that needs to be done in every community kind of setting we can find that is open to doing it.”
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Hillary is clearly not a behavioral psychologist spouting out that dangerous BULL****, more like a wing-nut, and it is interesting that not all that long ago, I was being confronted in here by a gentleman who swore I was making that up about Hillary saying “We all have implicit biases, they are almost in the DNA going back probably millennia, and what we need to do is be more honest about that and surface them, I don’t have the answers, I’m not a behavioral psychologist or anything, but I think that needs to be done in every community kind of setting we can find that is open to doing it.”
Getting back to the article:
Before Clinton spoke at the event a group of protesters gathered outside. They were a part of an organization called Philly R.E.A.L. Justice Coalition.
They hammered Clinton on her support for her husband’s 1994 crime bill and they demanded that Hillary pledge that as president she would pardon all those convicted due to the law.
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Bottom line, so long as the Democrats keep pushing racism to score political ,points for themselves, as Congresswoman Luria is doing here, we will always have “racism” in this country!