In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, the hip-hop community has rallied behind proposed new legislation to reform American policing.
A major part of the hip-hop community’s proposal is that independent prosecutors should immediately be brought in when police officers are charged with a crime – particularly a brutality or murder claim.
“The murder of George Floyd and the video seen around the nation is one more painful reminder of racism, danger to Black Americans posed by police violence, and the failure of our society’s collective attempt to address inequality and injustice,” Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), told Black Press USA in an email.
, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Whip on police reform legislation, said the past few weeks have laid bare to the nation just how far America has to go in addressing the deeply-rooted ills of racial bias and police-sanctioned violence in society.
“We can and must reimagine public safety in America to make our policing systems safer for citizens and hold police officers accountable to the communities they serve, beginning with ensuring that the common sense policies included in the Justice in Policing Act (announced Monday by Democrats) are adopted by police departments across our country,” McEachin stated.
