The United States House of Representatives approved a sweeping Democratic police reform bill, sending the measure to the Senate despite opposition from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress.
Named by Democrats as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, it is perhaps the most ambitious set of proposed changes to police procedures and accountability in decades.
Backed by the nation’s leading civil rights groups, it aims to match the momentum of demonstrations that filled streets across the nation.
The bill mandates changes in law and policy to rein in police misconduct, but is unlikely to be taken up in the Republican-led Senate.
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