Democratic lawmakers revive calls to pass the George Floyd Justice Policing Act that failed to gain Senate approval in 2021
Tyre Nichols’ family and residents of Memphis, Tennessee, are demanding that two outcomes emerge from the brutal beating by city police officers that killed the Black father earlier this year.
Residents expect prosecutors to secure convictions against the five former Memphis officers charged in the 29-year-old’s death, while they also expect that the police department reforms how it interacts with marginalized communities, lawyer Sue Ann Robinson told theGrio.
“That’s what ensures Tyre Nichols’ life [and] George Floyd’s life are not taken in vain. There needs to be actual change as opposed to another hashtag,” said Robinson, an attorney with Ben Crump Law and founder of the Frontline Firm.
The law firm of noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the Nichols family.
Last week, a federal grand jury today!
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