প্রকাশ: 26/05/2022
US President Joe Biden sought to reform federal and local policing with a
broad executive order on Wednesday, the second anniversary of the death of
George Floyd, while goading a seemingly immovable Congress to act on police and
gun reform.
The order
directs all federal agencies to revise their use-of-force policies, creates a
national registry of officers fired for misconduct and will use grants to
encourage state and local police to restrict the use of chokeholds and neck
restraints.
"It's
a measure of what we can do together to heal the very soul of this nation, to
address the profound fear trauma, exhaustion particularly Black Americans have
experienced for generations," Biden said.
He had not
signed it earlier, he said, because he was hoping Congress would pass a police
reform law named after Floyd. The bill collapsed in the US Senate last
September under Republican opposition.
Biden
spoke the day after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, and he
heaped blame on Congress in his opening remarks for their failure to write
stronger gun laws.
"Where's
the backbone? Where's the courage to stand up to a very powerful lobby,"
he said, apparently referring to the gun lobby and Republican opposition to
tighter gun restrictions.
The White
House police order restricts the use of no-knock entries to a limited set of
circumstances, such as when an announced entry would pose an imminent threat of
physical violence.
"I
don't know any good cop who likes a bad cop," Biden said.
Floyd, a
Black man suspected of passing a counterfeit bill, was killed when Derek
Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck on May 25, 2020,
as three other officers looked on. The incident triggered a wave of protests
over racial injustice months before Biden was elected.
Chauvin
was sentenced to 22-1/2 years in prison last year after his conviction on
murder charges.
Biden was
joined by members of Floyd's family, civil rights advocates and law enforcement
officials, and Vice President Kamala Harris, who assailing Republicans for the
failure to pass the policing bill.
- Reuters
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