The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Democratic police reform bill on Thursday, sending the measure to the Senate.
The Democratic-controlled House voted 236-181 roughly along party lines to adopt the “The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” legislation, despite blocking the Republican-backed police reform bill in the Senate a day earlier.
The Democratic and Republican bills address similar topics: chokeholds, no-knock warrants, police body cameras, use of deadly force, and training to de-escalate confrontations with suspects and to encourage officer intervention against illegal conduct as it occurs. The Democrat-backed bill is unlikely to be taken up in the Republican-led Senate, and it also faces a formal White House veto threat.
Republicans oppose the Democratic bill because of proposed mandates they say could undermine law enforcement.
