Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
WASHINGTON, D.C (KFGO) -Saturday is the fourth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, who died after now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over nine minutes.
Minnesota’s 5th District Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is renewing her calls for the passage of the Justice in Policing Act.
Omar says, “What we are fighting for is to undo 400 years of being brutalized, victimized, surveilled, enslaved, imprisoned, and having the life choked out of us in the cities we call home.”
The bill would ban chokeholds, such as the one that ended Floyd’s life, as well as eliminate ‘qualified immunity’ for police, which protects law enforcement from prosecution over certain acts.
Sgt. Rob Pride, chair of the National Fraternal Order of Police, says ending qualified immunity would make it hard for “our nation…to recruit the brightest people and retain good, experienced men and women.”
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