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George Floyd's Brother Among Those Testifying as US Leaders Consider Police
Reforms

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   Members of the U.S. Congress are examining national police reform
   proposals, while local and state officials announce more steps to
   change funding and authorizations for the use of force in their police
   departments.

   The House Judiciary Committee is set to hear Wednesday
   fromPhiloniseFloyd, brother of George Floyd, the African American man
   whose death in police custody after an officerheld a knee to his neck
   for almost nine minutessparkednationwide protests urging reforms.

   Other witnesses include Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and Vanita
   Gupta, former head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
   and current president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and
   Human Rights.

   Gupta wrote on Twitter that she would testify "on the need for
   transformative policing policies that promote accountability, reimagine
   public safety, and respect the dignity of all people."

   House Democrats have proposed a package of reforms that includes bans
   on racial profiling and choke holds, making it easier to sue officers
   in civil court and establishing a national database tracking officer
   misconduct. A vote is planned this month.

   Republican leaders in the Senate have tasked Senator Tim Scott with
   leading thecreation oftheir ownpackage ofproposals, an effort White
   House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters Tuesday he hopes will
   come "sooner than later."

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