The vice chairman of the United States, Kamala Harris, attended this Wednesday the funeral of Tire Nichols, the younger black man who died after a beating by 5 cops within the metropolis of Memphis, within the state of Tennessee. The White House introduced that Harris would attend the funeral together with the Rev. Al Sharpton and different civil rights leaders. Family members of different African-American victims of police brutality resembling George Floyd additionally attended.
If there was a continuing all through the spiritual service, it was the requests for Congress to approve the “George Floyd Police Justice Act”, which advocates police reform. In her speech, Harris recalled that previously, when she was a senator within the federal Congress (2017-2021), she was one of many legislators who drafted the initiative for this regulation and confused that as vice chairman she requires Congress to approve that regulation.
Harris lamented that “this violent act was not within the curiosity of protecting the general public secure”, so he requested: “Didn’t (Nichols) have a proper to be secure?” Two Memphis cops, one black and one white, are suspended whereas they’re investigated, whereas there are 5 different expelled from the drive – all of them black – who face numerous prison expenses.
The beating that Tire Nichols acquired in Memphis.
The “George Floyd Police Justice Act”, launched initially in 2020 and once more in 2021, gives for the creation of a nationwide registry of police malpractices to forestall officers from going unpunished for his or her actions as quickly as they journey to a jurisdiction completely different. Critics of this doctrine complain that it serves as a protect for abusers.
Nichols’s mom, Rowvaughn Wells, could not say it extra clearly: “We want this regulation to move,” she tearfully urged lawmakers, as a result of if not, she added, “with the subsequent child that dies the blood goes to be of their arms (of congressmen)”. The ceremony started with a 70-person choir singing “Strength Like No Other,” inflicting many in attendance to rise from their seats.