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TexasTowelie

(116,812 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:31 PM Jun 2020

Here's how policing may change under Colorado's police reform bill

An expansive proposed law that will require police officers across the state to wear body cameras and overhaul how officers can use force against people cleared is on its way to becoming law.

Colorado is among the first states in the country to tackle wholesale, statewide police accountability reform in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers.

Video footage of Floyd’s arrest, in which an officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 48 seconds, sparked protests and a national movement urging police reforms.

The calls for change have included bans on chokeholds, limits when officers can use force, and more transparency around when officers shoot or kill someone on duty.

Read more: https://www.cpr.org/2020/06/12/here-is-how-policing-may-change-under-colorados-proposed-police-reform-bill/

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Here's how policing may change under Colorado's police reform bill (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2020 OP
And as another DUer mentioned in a post, turning off those body cams needs to be BComplex Jun 2020 #1

BComplex

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1. And as another DUer mentioned in a post, turning off those body cams needs to be
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:45 PM
Jun 2020

considered premeditation, and the officer(s) should be charged, with that immediately included, if any harm comes to a citizen.

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