US Democrats vow to put pressure on legislation to make policing more accountable and make it easier to sue police officers over deadly incidents
Protesters lie in the street during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington, US, June 7, 2020.
Trump's tough approach to putting down protests continued to draw exceptional rebukes from top retired military officers, a group normally loath to criticise a civilian leader. He credited the decrease in violence to "what the administration has done" and he denied a problem of systemic racism among police.
The legislation is expected to make it easier to sue police officers over deadly incidents, to ban the sort of chokeholds that led to Floyd's death, and to establish a national database to record police misconduct.
"I don't think you need to reduce immunity to go after the bad cops, because that would result certainly in police pulling back" from necessary enforcement duties, he told CBS. Trump himself, seizing on the call by some protesters to slash police funding, went on the attack against Biden, tweeting without evidence that "not only will Sleepy Joe Biden DEFUND THE POLICE, but he will DEFUND OUR MILITARY!"
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