People who have been hurt by the police, their families and community leaders gather outside the state Capitol this morning in support of the George Floyd Act.
The legislation would ban chokehold and require police to intervene and, or render aid if another officer uses excessive force, and more. Noel Pinnock heads Texas Cops and Communities incorporated. He says
at the "core of the George Floyd Act is to place accountability where the guardrails have been taken off for so many years. The ban on chokeholds, de-escalation training and providing implicit bias training for police officers. I believe measures that are necessary to begin that rebuilding process."
A federal measure, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, passed the US House, but is some ways from becoming law. Pinnock says "Until House Resolution 7120 is passed, Texas has to do something. We can't sit on the sidelines and expect the issue of police brutality or racism or systemic racism is just going to go away."
The Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee will start its hearing of this and other bills at 10:30 a.m. or upon adjournment of the Texas House floor. George Floyd's family will testify virtually
