Here’s what you need to know:
- Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing.
- From Minneapolis to New York, cities are responding to cries to ‘defund the police.’
- Joe Biden will meet George Floyd’s family in Houston before the funeral.
- Derek Chauvin, an officer accused in George Floyd’s death, will appear in court for the first time.
- One person was shot after a man drove his car through a crowd of protesters in Seattle.
- National Guard troops are ordered off the capital’s streets.
- A statue of a slave trader is toppled in England as protests spread across the Atlantic.
Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing.
Democratic lawmakers in Congress introduced legislation on Monday aimed at ending excessive use of force by police forces across the country, and making it easier to identify, track, and prosecute police misconduct.
The bill was introduced as a direct response to the recent killings of unarmed black Americans by police officers, as protests continue across the country against police violence and racial discrimination. It is the most expansive intervention into policing that lawmakers have proposed in recent memory.
The measure would curtail existing legal protections that shield police officers who are accused of misconduct from being prosecuted, and would impose new restrictions to prevent law enforcement officers from using deadly force, except as a last resort. It includes many proposals that civil rights activists have been pushing for decades, against opposition from police unions and law enforcement groups.
“Never again should the world be subjected to witnessing what we saw on the streets in Minneapolis, the slow murder of an individual by a uniformed police officer,” said Representative Karen Bass, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
She was joined by Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, and Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California in introducing the measure.
Immediately beforehand, the four lawmakers joined with Democratic leaders to honor George Floyd, a black man who was killed in a confrontation with Minneapolis police, by kneeling for 8 minutes 46 seconds, the length of time an officer knelt on Mr. Floyd’s neck.
Whether Democrats can seize the moment and push the changes into law remains unclear. They expect to pass the legislation swiftly in the Democratic-led House, but President Trump and Republican lawmakers who control the Senate have yet to signal which measures, if any, they would accept.
Mr. Trump has said little about the issue in recent days except to reiterate on Twitter his support for law and order. Attorney General William P. Barr and the acting Homeland Security secretary, Chad Wolf, each said on Sunday that they did not believe there was a problem with systemic racism in law enforcement.
Democrats will discuss the bill and hear testimony on police brutality and racial profiling at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Among those set to testify is Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, according to a committee official familiar with the plans. The committee had yet to announce other witnesses.
From Minneapolis to New York, cities are responding to cries to ‘defund the police.’
Two weeks after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, massive gatherings for racial justice around the country have achieved a scale and level of momentum not seen in decades — and they appear unlikely to run out anytime soon as a number of societal forces propel the movement forward.
Many people filling the streets say the economic devastation of the coronavirus had already cleared their schedules. With jobs lost and colleges shuttered, they have nothing but time. And aggressive responses by the police at protests are only reinforcing their commitment.
“You’re watching injustice take place in every sector of our society,” said Wes Moore, who chronicled the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and its aftermath in the book, “Five Days.” “Schools have been closed. Students are burdened and under debt. There’s a compounding to the pain.”
The sustained outcry has already led to stark promises for change in several cities, as calls to defund, downsize or abolish police departments gain new traction.
In Minneapolis, where Mr. Floyd was held under a police officer’s knee for nearly nine minutes in a fatal encounter on May 25, nine of 13 City Council members publicly promised on Sunday to dismantle the police department and create a new system of public safety. Though Mayor Jacob Frey has expressed reservations, the council members said they had enough votes to override any potential veto.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to cut the city’s police budget and spend more on social services. The mayor did not say how much funding he planned to divert to social services from the New York Police Department, whose annual $6 billion budget represents more than 6 percent of Mr. de Blasio’s proposed $90 billion budget.
Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles also announced last week that he would cut as much as $150 million from a planned increase in the Police Department’s budget.
A battle over the proper response to the moment played out on the streets of Washington over the weekend, when activists responded to an official city message painting “Black Lives Matter” on streets leading to the White House with their own mural: “Defund the Police.”
Joe Biden will meet George Floyd’s family in Houston before the funeral.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to Houston on Monday to meet with the family of George Floyd, as the family prepares for a final public memorial in the city where Mr. Floyd became a star high-school athlete and a fixture in the Third Ward neighborhood.
Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, plans to offer condolences to members of the Floyd family on Monday and will also record a video message for Mr. Floyd’s funeral service on Tuesday, according to a Biden aide.
He is not expected to attend the service — given his Secret Service protection, there were concerns about creating a disruption — but he wanted to offer in-person condolences, according to people familiar with the matter.
Thousands of people are expected to attend the public viewing on Monday and the funeral on Tuesday, though the gatherings at the Fountain of Praise Church in southwest Houston will be bound by social-distancing restrictions because of the coronavirus.
It is a final goodbye for Mr. Floyd, 46, who spent most of his life in Houston’s Third Ward, a historic African-American community that is home to Texas Southern University, one of the largest historically black colleges in the country. There were previously services in Minnesota, where he died, and North Carolina, where he was born.
The viewing on Monday will be held about 14 miles from Cuney Homes, the Third Ward public-housing complex where Mr. Floyd grew up and was known as Big Floyd.
Across the street from Cuney, a corner store on Winbern Street has been crowded in recent days with Mr. Floyd’s relatives, friends and former neighbors. Artists transformed the store’s back wall into a giant mural of Mr. Floyd, depicting him wearing a T-shirt that says “Ghetto” and with the wings of an angel.
Off to the side, it reads, “Texas Made, 3rd Ward Raised.”
Derek Chauvin, an officer accused in George Floyd’s death, will appear in court for the first time.
Derek Chauvin, the veteran Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Monday.
The charges against Mr. Chauvin, who has since been fired from the police force where he worked for two decades, were recently upgraded to second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. If convicted, he faces up to 40 years in prison.
The prosecution, led by Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, will have to prove that the officer’s use of force was unreasonable, a proposition that Mr. Ellison said will be difficult.
“Let me also note a dose of reality: Prosecuting police officers for misconduct — including homicide, murder — is very difficult,” Mr. Ellison said last week. “We’ll come under attack as we present this case to a jury or a fact finder, and we need to make sure that we are absolutely prepared. We intend to be absolutely prepared.”
It was unknown who is representing Mr. Chauvin and whether he will be required to enter a plea at the hearing. Defendants do not typically enter pleas during their first appearances in Minnesota courts. He is currently being held in the state’s most secure prison.
Three other officers involved in the May 25 encounter in which Mr. Floyd died — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — appeared in court last week. They have also been fired from the force, and a judge set their individual bail at $750,000.
One person was shot after a man drove his car through a crowd of protesters in Seattle.
One person was shot and another person was arrested on Sunday night in Seattle after a man with a pistol drove a vehicle through a crowd of protesters, the authorities said.
The Seattle Fire Department said a 27-year-old man had been wounded in a shooting and was taken to the hospital. He is in stable condition.
Videos from the scene show a vehicle driving at speed on a crowded street toward an intersection where protesters were gathered near a Seattle Police Department station house in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. It echoed a deadly episode in Charlottesville, Va., nearly three years ago, when a man plowed his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one woman and injuring at least 19 other people.
After the vehicle in Seattle was brought to a stop, a gunshot appeared to go off, sending people running.
In a video posted by a photojournalist, Alex Garland, the man who was shot appeared to be treated by street medics. The victim said he had seen the car coming down the street and pursued it in an attempt to protect the crowd. The man, who was not immediately identified, said he had punched the driver before being shot, according to the police.
The Seattle Police Department said that the driver was in custody and that a gun had been recovered. The authorities said they did not believe there were other victims.
Elsewhere across the country, demonstrations have become less pitched and overwhelmingly peaceful, but protesters continued to clash with the police in Seattle.
Early on Monday, despite Mayor Jenny Durkan’s previously announcing a temporary ban on the use of tear gas, the police said they had approved its use to disperse a crowd after officers were targeted with heavy projectiles.
Among those who reported being hit by the gas was Kshama Sawant, a City Council member, who said it had been used without provocation.
“Shameful violence under Mayor Durkan,” she said.
National Guard troops are ordered off the capital’s streets.
President Trump ordered National Guard troops to begin withdrawing from the nation’s capital, after a week of criticism over his threat to militarize the government’s response to nationwide protests — including criticism from within the military establishment.
Three former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff condemned Mr. Trump on Sunday for sending troops to deal with domestic protests, and warned that the military risked losing credibility with the American people.
The announcement capped a tumultuous week in which the federal authorities violently cleared away peaceful protesters outside the White House to make way for a photo opportunity by Mr. Trump; National Guard helicopters flew low over demonstrators to scatter them; and active-duty troops were summoned to positions just outside the capital.
Those actions and a threat by the president to send the military into states to control protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody prompted unusually public dissent from former military leaders, and discord in Mr. Trump’s administration.
“We have a military to fight our enemies, not our own people,” retired Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, who was the top military adviser to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, told “Fox News Sunday.”
He said putting troops into domestic demonstrations risked the trust the Pentagon had worked to regain with the American people after the upheaval of the Vietnam War.
A statue of a slave trader is toppled in England as protests spread across the Atlantic.
Passions over race and police brutality erupted in Europe over the weekend, with large Black Lives Matter protests in London and other British cities ending in clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, and the toppling of a statue of a slave trader in Bristol.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned what he called illegal attacks on the police, writing on Twitter on Sunday night, “These demonstrations have been subverted by thuggery — and they are a betrayal of the cause they purport to serve. Those responsible will be held to account.”
Mr. Johnson’s home secretary, Priti Patel, will face questioning in Parliament on Monday over the government’s response to the unrest. She said in a column in the Telegraph newspaper that the “scenes of lawlessness are completely unacceptable,” and vowed to prosecute those who attacked the police.
But the demonstrations have opened a broader debate. Many in the opposition Labour Party noted that they were largely peaceful — a call for racial justice in a country where anger over police brutality mutated into violent protests in 2011. And the toppling of a long-divisive statue echoes debates in the American South, where several Confederate monuments have been removed as the protests have grown.
In Bristol, the police did not prevent a crowd from pulling down the statue of the slave trader, Edward Colston, and dumping it into Bristol Harbor. A merchant who endowed schools and hospitals in Bristol, Mr. Colston also profited from slavery, transporting at least 80,000 people from West Africa to the Caribbean. Critics have campaigned for years to take down the bronze statue, which was erected in 1895.
“Whilst I am disappointed that people would damage one of our statues, I do understand why it’s happened,” Andy Bennett, a local police superintendent, told the BBC. “It’s very symbolic.”
New York City’s mayor vows to cut police funding.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City on Sunday pledged for the first time to cut the city’s police funding, after 10 nights of mass protests against police brutality and mounting demands that he overhaul a department whose tactics have drawn condemnation.
The mayor did not say how much funding he planned to divert to social services from the New York Police Department, whose annual $6 billion budget represents more than 6 percent of Mr. de Blasio’s proposed $90 billion budget. He said details would be worked out with the City Council before the July 1 budget deadline.
“We’re committed to seeing a shift of funding to youth services, to social services, that will happen literally in the course of the next three weeks,” the mayor said, adding that he was “not going to go into detail, because it is subject to negotiation and we want to figure out what makes sense.”
His announcement that he favored the budget cuts represented the latest turn in a fraught relationship with the city’s police force.
Mr. de Blasio campaigned for the mayoralty in 2013 on promises of overhauling the department, which had been embroiled in controversy over its aggressive use of stop-and-frisk in communities of color. He also made his wife, who is black, and his children central to his campaign. But by the time he took office, the use of stop-and-frisk had already fallen sharply.
During the mayor’s first year in office, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man, died after a police officer put him into a chokehold on Staten Island, and Mr. Garner’s final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry across the country.
Mr. de Blasio tried to empathize with protesters, telling reporters that he had advised his son “on how to take special care” during interactions with officers.
When two police officers were fatally shot in Brooklyn later that month while sitting in their patrol car, a police union leader said Mr. de Blasio had blood on his hands.
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