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7:27:30Now Playing(May 25) President Joe Biden is set to meet privately Tuesday with the family of George Floyd one year after his death, with negotiators working on policing legislation in Congress still stuck on how to hold law enforcement officers accountable for excessive use of force.
The three central players in the discussions -- Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, GOP Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and Democratic Representative Karen Bass of California -- all say they are making progress, though an agreement could yet be weeks away.
Biden surprised lawmakers when he urged them in his April 28 address to Congress to finish work on the legislation by the anniversary of Floyd’s death at the hands of a White Minneapolis police officer, according to an aide familiar with the negotiations. But with the talks at a crucial juncture, the White House hasn’t applied pressure to meet a hard deadline.
Domestic policy adviser Susan Rice on Tuesday praised the proposed legislation is as “a very important step,” if not a “cure-all”
Rice, in an interview with MSNBC, said the negotiations were moving forward in good faith “to see if we can get a meaningful police reform out of the Senate that will move the ball forward as far as we possibly can.”
Civil rights groups are more interested in what they would consider a substantive bill rather than meeting a symbolic deadline, Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said Monday.
“While I would like to have had something by the anniversary, deadlines are less important than substance,” Morial said.
The protests and rage that followed Floyd’s death have ebbed since last summer. But the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last month on second-degree murder and lesser charges for cutting off Floyd’s air supply as he lay handcuffed and begging for mercy gave new impetus to the search for compromise after efforts to pass policing legislation collapsed in the Senate in June 2020, when Democrats blocked a GOP-only bill drafted by Scott.
Floyd’s family members have been actively engaged. Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, and relatives of other Black Americans who died at the hands of police were in the Capitol on April 29 meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as well as with Scott, Booker and Bass.
Members of the family are to meet with Booker in his office on Tuesday after their visit to the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Members of Floyd’s family, including his young daughter Gianna, will visit the White House Tuesday. The meeting will be private because Biden wants to have an open conversation with them, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
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