By Andrea Shalal, Jarrett Renshaw3 Min ReadWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden sought to reform federal and native policing with a broad government order on Wednesday, the second anniversary of the loss of life of George Floyd, whereas goading a seemingly immovable Congress to behave on police and gun reform.Slideshow ( 2 pictures )The order directs all federal companies to revise their use-of-force insurance policies, creates a nationwide registry of officers fired for misconduct and can use grants to encourage state and native police to limit the usage of chokeholds and neck restraints.“It’s a measure of what we can do together to heal the very soul of this nation, to address the profound fear trauma, exhaustion particularly Black Americans have experienced for generations,” Biden mentioned.He had not signed it earlier, he mentioned, as a result of he hoped Congress would move a police reform regulation named after Floyd. The invoice collapsed within the U.S. Senate final September underneath Republican opposition.Biden spoke the day after a mass capturing at an elementary faculty in Texas, and he heaped blame on Congress in his opening remarks for his or her failure to write down stronger gun legal guidelines.“Where’s the backbone? Where’s the courage to stand up to a very powerful lobby,” he mentioned, apparently referring to the gun foyer and Republican opposition to tighter gun restrictions.The White House police order restricts the usage of no-knock entries to a restricted set of circumstances, equivalent to when an introduced entry would pose an imminent risk of bodily violence.“I don’t know any good cop who likes a bad cop,” Biden mentioned.Floyd, a Black man suspected of passing a counterfeit invoice, was killed when Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck on May 25, 2020, as three different officers regarded on. The incident triggered a wave of protests over racial injustice months earlier than Biden was elected.Chauvin was sentenced to 22-1/2 years in jail final yr after his conviction on homicide prices.Biden was joined by members of Floyd’s household, civil rights advocates and regulation enforcement officers, and Vice President Kamala Harris, who assailing Republicans for the failure to move the policing invoice.Reporting by Andrea Shalal, Rami Ayyub and Jarrett Renshaw in Washington; Editing by Heather Timmons and Howard GollerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
