NOW Is The Time To Lead!
Defund the police? Disband police forces? Burn it all down?
The radical left have lost their minds!
At a moment of national consensus on the need for police reform, the well is being poisoned by the most fanatical and unreasonable voices in our society.
Look at the examples of Seattle, where a police precinct is being occupied by anarchists, and Minneapolis, where a far left city council has voted to get rid of the police altogether.
These things are scaring reasonable people to death.
Instead of responding by seeking a bipartisan reform bill that meets the demands of the American people, Congressional Democrats seem beholden to this fringe and have passed legislation that reflects it.
There are common sense reforms upon which most people can agree such as:
✅ banning chokeholds,
✅ balancing qualified immunity against grossly negligent police actions,
✅ limiting the power of unions to protect bad cops, and
✅ a national database so that abusive officers can't bounce from job to job.
The majority of Republican and Democrat legislators, myself included, are ready to vote for these reforms.
Unfortunately, Democrat House leadership locked out Republican members and instead passed a radical and recklessly ideological bill that has no hope of passage in the Senate.
At the same time, Senate Democrats rebuffed Republican offers to include 20 amendments to the Senate GOP bill and refused to even debate the issue.
This is not leadership.
It is clear that the Democrats want an election issue more than they want reforms that will save lives and rebuild trust between the police and the communities they serve.
This is a shame. Right now, we have a moment when bipartisan reform is possible.
I am calling on my Democrat colleagues to put aside partisanship and come together to do what the American people elected us to do.
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