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<v 0>Qualified immunity is one of the ways that police need to be</v>

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held accountable.

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The officer to kill George Floyd was looking at the camera as he killed him.

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Why? Because he felt he could operate an impunity.

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And so qualified immunity will allow an individual to Sue the officer.

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There have been over a hundred incidents of officer involved shootings

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since George Floyd.

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And my question to you rhetorically is how many more people need to

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die? How many more video tapes do we need to see my colleagues,

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several of them.

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I do not make light at all of the difficulties they had in getting reelected

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because of the lie around defunding the police.

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This bill does not defund the police, but you know,

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all of those ads had racial underpinnings. I mean,

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they're all Willie Horton tile type beds that scary black people are going

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to attack you. If you try to reign in the police,

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that's as old as Apple pie

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in our history. So do you not act because of that?

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I understand it's a tough vote. I do. And I'm not making light of that at all.

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Passing civil rights legislation was a tough vote to passing the voting rights

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act was a tough vote to passing legislation against lynching was such a

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tough vote. It still hasn't been done.