When Black Caucus chair Steven Horsford meets with Biden, he'll bring a message from Tyre Nichols' family: They want action. That includes in Congress, at the state and local level and 'executive actions that still can be taken by the president.'
heads to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden this week, he will bring a message directly from the family of Tyre Nichols: Act now.
“I’m not optimistic. I’m not confident that we are going to be able to get real police reform,” said Rep., who will attend the White House meeting. “I approach working on this issue as a responsibility that I have to do, that we must try.” More broadly, lawmakers, civil rights leaders and criminal justice reform advocates are pushing for Biden to use the bully pulpit to gather support to pass legislation, however it is shaped.
The White House has taken steps to show it’s invested in the issue. After the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act failed to get a Senate vote in 2021, Biden eventually signed an executive order that created a national database of police misconduct, mandated body-worn camera policies and banned chokeholds from federal law enforcement agencies.
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