Tyre Nichols Is The Latest Black Man To Be Killed By Excessive Force At The Hands Of Police. Nichols, 29, Was Beaten To Death In Memphis By 5 Police Officers Only 80 Yards From His Mother’s Home. He Was Unarmed, Handcuffed, And Complying. Finally, Justice Moved Quickly. The Police Officers Involved Have Been Fired And Charged With Second Degree Murder. With Lawmakers Like Jim Jordan Declaring No Legislation Will Stop Police Brutality, The Hope For Passing Federal Legislation For Police Reform Will Not Happen While MAGA Politics Exists. – Baby Boomer Resistance: A Pro Democracy Blog

Democrats support legislation to reform police. Republicans are against it. The House passed the George Floyd Justice in Police Act in February 2021, but Senate Republicans did not support it. Law enforcement usually tends to support conservatism so Republicans with the police fight public complaints of corruption and brutality. The GOP has mildly voiced its opposition to police killing black men during traffic stops, while mocking police officers who were brutalized while defending the Capitol against rioters. Memphis officials ditched their party affiliation, saying, “enough is enough” and calling for police reform legislation.

Will another preventable death of a young black man caused by police use of excessive force finally lead to reform? The main obstacle: the majority of law enforcement professionals are conservatives and the current Republican party is full of racism and toxic masculinity. The epidemic of black men being killed by excessive force is a stain on America’s world image. Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and MAGA members of Congress like Marjorie Taylor Green are on a mission to revive the racism of the Jim Crow era. However, there is anger among all political parties about young people being killed during routine traffic stops by angry and anxious police officers.

• July 17, 2014, Eric Garner: Eric Garner died after he was confronted by New York police on suspicion of selling illegal cigarettes.

• August 9, 2014, Michael Brown: Michael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who responded to a report that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.
• November 22, 2014: Tamir Rice: Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy, was shot and killed in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a “probably juvenile” man pointing a “probably fake” gun at a passerby. .
• Walter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• The death of Alton Sterling sparked days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr. Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside the store.
• July 6, 2016: Philando Castile: Philando Castile was killed while driving with his girlfriend in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• March 18, 2018 Stephon Clark: Killed after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California, by police investigating a nearby burglary.
• March 13, 2020: Breonna Taylor: Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.
• May 25, 2020: George Floyd: George Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and detained by police officers, one of whom kneeled on Mr. Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
• May 25, 2020: George Floyd: George Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and detained by police officers, one of whom kneeled on Mr. Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
• April 11, 2021: After being pulled over for a traffic violation, police inform Mr. Wright that he is being arrested for an outstanding warrant. He broke free and tried to get back into the car, when an officer was heard yelling “Taser” several times before opening fire.

A 2020 study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health found that black Americans are 3 times more likely to kill police than white Americans. The continued resistance of Republican lawmakers to support life-saving police reforms is a political dogma based on racism that preys on white nationalist voters and a travel strategy to appease other alt-right conservative voters.

Republican Senator Tim Scott, the only black person in the Senate, pushed a bill called the Justice Act that failed to pass because it did not include restrictions on the use of excessive force and supported qualified immunity for police officers. .

However, the trend is positive as the justice system begins to hold police accountable for killing black people in custody. The reality of systemic racism in policing is denied by Republicans but acknowledged by most Americans.