Slate of proposed bills could change policing in California
LOS ANGELES — It’s been three months since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and calls for sweeping criminal justice reform.
In many states, residents are still waiting for new laws and policies to be enacted. In California, lawmakers have until Aug. 31 to consider more than a dozen bills aimed at reducing, overseeing and disciplining the kind of police violence that led to Floyd’s death and those of thousands more like him, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures' bill-tracking database.
“What we’ve seen in this country in the last four months, let alone in the last 50, 60 years as it relates to police killings of Black and brown people, calls for addressing,” said state Sen. Steven Bradford, a Democrat. “The George Floyd execution, and that’s what it was, spoke loudly not just to African American people in this state and in this country, but to people around the world.”
Bradford is among a handful of lawmakers who have put forth proposed bills that could change the face of law enforcement in the nation’s most populous state.
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