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WUSA9’s Rafael Sanchez-Cruz spoke with the Maryland Democrat on Sunday about reintroducing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) told WUSA9 that he was planning on making a renewed push for Congress to pass the police reform bill named after George Floyd on Monday, four years after the law was first introduced in the House.
“We have tough sledding ahead of us, for sure,” Ivey told WUSA9’s Rafael Sanchez-Cruz on Sunday. “But I feel it’s critical for us to keep trying to make sure that we advance this agenda and move this bill forward.”
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act did pass a Democratic-controlled House in both 2020 and 2021, although mostly along party lines. In 2020, just two weeks after 46-year-old George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, three Republicans — Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Will Hurd of Texas and Fred Upton of Michigan voted in favor of the law.
But it was the Republican U.S. Senate that proved to be the bill’s obstaclce, failling procedural votes in that chamber in 2020. Senate Republicans offered the alternative JUSTICE Act that June, which Democrats, in turn rejected.
In 2024, Ivey was among 155 cosponsors who introduced that year’s version of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act into a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The bill died in committee.
As far as the content of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, Ivey touted the bill’s call to ban no-knock warrants in drug cases, chokeholds, citing these tactics as “things that have led to serious violations.” Ivey said the bill would also establish a national registry to keep track of officers who have a history of using excessive force.
Ivey’s Maryland congressional district covers most of Prince George’s County and a small part of Montgomery County.
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