FILE IMAGE: House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) strolls along the Ohio Clock Corridor following the very first day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial in Washington, U.S., January 22,2020 REUTERS/Tom Brenner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-controlled U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday asked the Justice Department to examine systemic cops misconduct following a spate of prominent cops killings of African Americans.
The killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, who died when a white officer pinned him down with a knee to the neck, and Breonna Taylor, shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, house, raise questions as to whether police were engaged in a “pattern or practice of