George Floyd bill passes house

The US House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the most ambitious police reform effort in decades, for the second time on Wednesday.

The sweeping legislation would ban chokeholds and “qualified immunity” for law enforcement and create national standards for policing in a bid to bolster accountability.

  

So I guess the Republican threat to have the bill read on the floor, adding 10 hours to the deliberations, was just posturing.*

[T]he only Republican who voted in favor said he did so in error, and has changed the official record to reflect his opposition.

When he realized he was the only one.

The House had passed a version of the bill last year, but the Republican-controlled Senate never took it up. This time around, Democrats have the support of the White House and a slight edge in the Senate. But they will have to win over at least 10 Republican senators to overcome a filibuster and pass the measure – which is unlikely to happen.

Get rid of the filibuster.

Police unions and other law enforcement groups have argued that, without such legal protections, fears of lawsuits will stop people from becoming police officers – even though the measure permits such suits only against law enforcement agencies, rather than all public employees.

So...more bullshit.

[Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the chamber,] said this week that the legislation’s sticking points were qualified immunity and prosecutorial standards and that in both areas, “We have to protect individual officers.”

“That’s a red line for me,” Scott said, adding “hopefully we’ll come up with something that actually works.”

But it's the individual officers who are doing the killing.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

*UPDATE:

I am mistaken...this is a threat from the Senate, and it's on the covid-19 relief bill.  Mea culpa.