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Calls for police reform have grown after five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee were caught on video beating a man who later died.
But as VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias explains, there isn’t consensus yet among American legislators on how to prevent more violence.
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HEADLINE: Nichols’ Case Revives Calls for Police Reform in US
TEASER: U.S. legislators evaluate measures to prevent police brutality nationwide
PUBLISHED AT: 1/29/23 4:40p
BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias
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[[Calls for police reform have grown after five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee were caught on video beating a man who later died. But as VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias explains, there isn’t consensus yet among American legislators on how to prevent more violence.]]
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[[ Calls for police reform have grown after five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee were caught on video beating a man who later died. But there isn’t consensus yet among American legislators on to how to prevent more violence.]]
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How to move forward after the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis is what U.S. activists and legislators are trying to figure out.
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Appearing on ABC’s This Week, the family’s attorney, Ben Crump, stressed the need to address what he called an implicit bias in police culture in the United States.
((Ben Crump, Nichols’ Family Attorney))
“It doesn’t matter if the officers are black, Hispanic or white. /I believe is part of the institutionalized police culture that makes it somehow allowed that they can use this type of excessive force and brutality against people of color.”
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When assessing concrete measures to prevent police brutality, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin told ABC a national conversation is needed.
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((Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat))
“Banning chokeholds, dealing with no warrantless searches, dealing with accreditation of police departments. It’s necessary that we do all these things but not sufficient.”
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While stressing that not all police officers are to be blamed, Republican Representative Jim Jordan shared his views with NBC’s Meet the Press about calls for police reform at the federal level.
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((Rep. Jim Jordan/Republican))
“I don’t know that any training, any ban, there was no chokeholds used there, what they did there was just continue to beat Mr. Nichols, so I don’t know that’s the answer.”
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Interviewed on Good Morning America, Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, proposed finding different and holistic approaches to fix the problem.
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((Derrick Johnson, NAACP President))
“Agencies must be trained around deescalating but also we need to beef up the funding for mental health support.”
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He added that having a federal database where police misconduct is recorded could also block officers from changing agencies, and thus help make a difference.
((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, VOA News, Washington))
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