Senator Tim Scott criticized the “scandalous and sinful” comment by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi that Republicans are trying to “get away with … the murder of George Floyd.”
Scott, a South Carolina Republican and the party’s only black senator, was speaking on Fox News Radio on Friday when he responded to Pelosi’s comments about his Justice Law police reform bill.
Pelosi on Tuesday criticized the Republican bill in an interview with CBS Radio, calling it “insurmountable” and saying it won’t make “any difference.”
“For something to happen, they will have to face the reality of police brutality, the reality of the need for justice in the police and the recognition that there are many good people in law enforcement, but not all,” Pelosi said of Republicans
‘And that we have to address those concerns. So when they admit that, and they have some suggestions that are worth considering, but until now they were trying to get away with, actually, the murder of George Floyd.
Senator Tim Scott (left) criticized the “scandalous and sinful” comment by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (right) that the Republicans are trying to “get away with … the murder of George Floyd.”
Scott replied, “It was the most scandalous and sinful comment I have ever heard as a public official, period.”
I thought to myself, ‘How the hell does this woman, standing in front of a $ 24,000 refrigerator, have the good sense to throw herself into the bottomless abyss of racial politics? Why the hell would she want to do that?
“There is only one answer, by the way, one answer,” Scott continued. “It is because he has lived for so long in a state of privilege that he has forgotten that it is the Republican Party that voted the most for Civil Rights era legislation than the Democrats.”
“It is because he forgot that it was President Trump and the 2018 criminal justice reform that made up for the Democrats’ criminal criminal law of 1994,” he continued.
“He forgot that it is the school choice movement that frees more poor children from the poor education system brought to us by Democrats and teacher unions than they have ever seen,” Scott continued.
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) arrive to vote to close the debate on the motion to proceed with consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act at the United States Capitol. United in Washington DC on Thursday
Pelosi showed his expensive refrigerators on late-night television in April
‘He has forgotten reality so much that he spends too much time in an alternate universe. But the facts are simple, ‘Scott added. Why the hell would he stoop so low? And it’s just this: They believe, and I really believe this, they believe that campaigning against police brutality is more important than solving police reform. ”
On Wednesday, Democrats in the Senate blocked debate on Scott’s JUSTICE Act, and the measure fell five votes below the 60 votes needed to move forward.
Democrats in the House of Representatives passed their own bill on Friday, but the Senate is unlikely to accept it and President Donald Trump has promised to veto it.
After the Republican Party surveillance bill stalled this week, blocked by Democrats, Trump shrugged.
“If nothing happens, it’s one of those things,” Trump said. “We have different philosophies.”
Pelosi ended up mixing names on Friday when he declared that the Democratic police reform, which had received the name of George Floyd, was worthy of the name ‘George Kirby’.
Pelosi was speaking to reporters at the time and intended to refer to Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died in police custody last month after his neck was knelt for nearly eight minutes.
George Kirby was a black comedian and singer who was popular in the 1960s and ’70s and passed away in 1995.
Although the proposals of the Congress share points in common, they differ widely.
One major difference is that several of the changes proposed by Republicans, such as restrictions on police use of bottlenecks, which are already banned in many jurisdictions, are banned by Democrats.
Pelosi said she is willing to bring ideas to the table, but “if one person says there are bottlenecks and the other person says there are no bottlenecks, it is very difficult to commit.
Law enforcement organizations and some of the country’s top business groups, including top CEO’s influential Business Roundtable, are encouraging Congress to continue working to find a solution.
But that seems unlikely, with the tightening of legislators’ positions and parties settling for a political confrontation before the campaign season and elections.
Nancy Pelosi offers remarks as she is joined by other members of Congress on the steps of the United States Capitol Chamber before the George Floyd Police Justice Law vote
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the House bill will not pass.
Central to both bills would be the creation of a national database of incidents of use of force, which is considered a way to provide transparency in officers’ records if they are transferred from one agency to another.
The bills would also establish new training procedures, including reinforcing the use of body cameras.
The Democratic bill goes further, reviewing federal statute for police misconduct and holding officials personally accountable for damages in trials. It would also stop the practice of sending military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.
None of the bills goes as far as some activists want, with calls to disburse the police and transfer resources to other community services.
Scott insisted that he was open to amending his bill with the changes proposed by Democrats. But Democrats doubted McConnell would allow a thorough debate and instead blocked the Republican bill in hopes of renegotiating.
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