House Passes Expansive Policing Overhaul Bill Named In Honor Of George Floyd

The House on Wednesday passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, an expansive policing overhaul measure named for the 46-year-old Black man who died last Memorial Day after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against his neck for over nine minutes.

The bill passed 220 te 212 along mostly party lines, with two Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden (Maine) and Ron Kind (Wis), voting against it, and one Republican, Rep. Lance Gooden (Tex.), accidentally voting for it.

Soon after the vote, Gooden tweeted that….Lees meer