What is the ‘police Bill of Rights’ and why is its repeal a win for social justice?
Something exceptional happened on Saturday: U.S. lawmakers in Maryland moved to repeal the state’s police Bill of Rights.
The repeal came as part of a larger police reform package that passed through the Maryland legislature in recent weeks. Of the five bills making up the entire package — all of which passed in the state’s Democrat-controlled General Assembly — Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, vetoed three, including the police Bill of Rights repeal.
The vetoed bills returned to the General Assembly for a vote on Saturday, where both the state House and Senate voted to successfully override Hogan’s vetoes. The collection of bills, which together amount to broad reforms for the state’s law enforcement body, are some of the many reform efforts that sprung up after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd. Read more…More about Police, Law Enforcement, Social Good, Politics, and Discrimination
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