The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a comprehensive police bill, named after George Floyd, whose death in custody sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice.
Democrats pushed through the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act by a vote of 220-212, with the support of only one Republican.
The legislation would ban strangleholds and dispose of the “qualified immunity” for law enforcement, thus facilitating the lawsuits against officers accused of violating the constitutional rights of suspects.
The measure was approved for the first time last summer, not long after Floyd’s death on May 25 by Minnesota police, but it got stuck in the then Republican-controlled Senate.
Democrats have said they are determined to pass the bill a second time. Although they now control both chambers of Congress, it seems unlikely that the legislation could pass the Senate without major changes to gain GOP support.
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