NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito about the Republican policing reform bill, a response to nationwide protests over police shootings of Black people.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
A group of Republican senators have drafted a 106-page police reform bill after a nationwide outcry spurred by the killings of Black men and women in the hands of police.
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia was part of that group of Republican senators, and we spoke with her yesterday.
SIMON: Senator, do you believe the recent killings - and I'm just going to mention a few of the names - the recent killings of George Floyd and 12-year-old Tamir Rice and Walter Scott and Philando Castile and Jamar Clark and Breonna Taylor and Eric Garner, were they exceptions or examples of systemic racism in U.S. law enforcement?
SIMON: West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito, thanks very much for being with us.
