Sen. Tim Scott, who is leading his party’s legislative charge on police reform, says he hopes the “very important” conversation won't be derailed by politics: “If we’re that close on making progress, I hope we don’t let partisanship get in the way.'
Those protesting have made a variety of calls for reforms, including setting restrictions on the situations where police could use deadly force, slashing police budgets, curbing the use of “no-knock warrants,” banning the use of chokeholds by officers and making it easier to sue officers accused of misconduct by addressing a legal standard called “qualified immunity.”which would ban chokeholds, as well as no-knock warrants in drug cases.
“We’re focusing, at least I am, former police officers, current police officers and civilians to work on a commission to help us to discern what it looks like to have effective policies that lead to better outcomes in those intense, split-second decisions,” Scott said. But he expressed caution around banning no-knock warrants in drug cases because of a lack of data outlining how those warrants are served, while remaining open to the idea of banning no-knock warrants if the data pointed to that decision.
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