Republican senators are pushing forward with their own cops reform proposal following the death of George Floyd, stating the significant legislation used by Democrats dead on arrival in the Senate and establishing a clash with Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-Calif.).
” Your home version is going nowhere in the Senate. … We have no interest in that,” Senate Bulk Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told press reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
McConnell relatively dared Democrats to oppose the bill being drafted by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). It will need support from a minimum of seven Democrats to bear down the flooring.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at another Tuesday interview that it would be “early” to comment before Scott officially unveils his bill on Wednesday.
But other Democrats have been singing in their hesitation about the GOP measure since it does not include specific bans on police strategies like chokeholds and no-knock warrants, which were used by police in the deaths, respectively, of George Floyd in Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
” I worry in this moment that we will duplicate history, that this is the film ‘Groundhog Day,'” Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a co-sponsor of his chamber’s Democratic proposal, lamented throughout a Senate Judiciary Commi