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Law Enforcement Using Their Guns Instead of Their Heads

Floor Speech

Date: April 13, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Legal Criminal Justice

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Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it feels like open season on
black men in America, and I am outraged. In fact, all Americans are at
risk when bad actors in law enforcement use their guns instead of their
heads.

Despite bipartisan, nationwide calls for action and despite my bills
to reform the broken grand jury process, hold police accountable, and
end militarization and despite my colleagues' bills to encourage body
cameras, this Congress does nothing--no hearings, no blue ribbon
commissions--nothing.

Mr. Speaker, here are just a few names of our colleagues, neighbors,
and relatives killed by police, so my colleagues will no longer ignore
this crisis: Walter Scott, North Carolina; Michael Brown, Missouri;
Anthony Hill, Georgia; Tony Robinson, Wisconsin; Kevin Davis, Georgia;
Nicholas Thomas, Georgia; Daniel Elrod, Nebraska; Antonio Zambrano-
Montes, Washington; David Kassick, Pennsylvania; Jessica Hernandez,
Colorado; Kevin Davis, Georgia; Dennis Grigsby, Texas; Rumain Brisbon,
Phoenix; Tamir Rice, Ohio; Akai Gurley, New York; Carlos M. Perez,
Nevada; Kajieme Powell, Missouri; Ezell Ford, California; Dillon
Taylor, Utah; John Crawford III, Ohio; Naeschylus Vinzant, Colorado;
Charly Leundeu Keunang, California; and the list goes on.

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