Five years after Ferguson uprising, Democrats push new rules on police violence
, fatal police shootings have continued to rise each year. Khanna hopes this legislation will stem that regressive trend.
“You look at Tamir Rice’s case, the boy who was shot in Ohio because he had a toy gun,” Khanna says, with sadness in his voice. He was referring to the 2014 shooting death of a 12-year-old boy at the hands of then-Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann. “The police officers in that case, when they were called, they went two feet away from the boy and [initiated] a confrontation. There would be totally different standards required under force being a last resort and force being necessary.
Forget about the false narrative that requiring officers to tone down the violence on the job would jeopardize their safety; Trump has promotedduring his presidency. So, it is doubtful that he’ll sign any bill like the PEACE Act.
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