Rev. Al Sharpton invited Vice President Harris to give an address at Tyre Nichols’s funeral. In brief comments, Harris denounced the actions of the Memphis police officers who brutally beat the 29-year-old on Jan. 7, leading to his death three days later.
In comments that lasted about five minutes, the vice president told those inside the church how mothers around the world “pray to God that when they hold their child, that body and that life will be safe for the rest of his life.” She wondered why Nichols, as in many fatal police incidents involving Black men and women in recent years, was not given that chance.“We have a mother and a father who mourn the life of a young man who should be here today,” Harris said.
The vice president also renewed her call to Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which Democrats passed in the House in 2021 to create a federal database for officer misconduct allegations, incentivize states to end “no-knock” warrants and limit transfer of military equipment to police, among other changes. The push for the bill followed the deaths of several Black people at the hands of police, including Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Harris, who noted that she was a co-author of the original bill when she was in the Senate, said there was no more time to waste in passing police reform that has previously fizzled in Congress.“As vice president of the United States, we demand that Congress pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Joe Biden will sign it,” she said to one of the loudest ovations during her remarks. “And we should not delay and not be denied. It is nonnegotiable.
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