The House on Thursday passed a sweeping policing reform bill largely along party lines to address systemic racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd. "Exactly one month ago, George Floyd spoke his final words — 'I can't breathe' — and changed the course of history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the steps outside the Capitol hours before the 236-181 vote. The legislation would ban chokeholds, including the kind used on Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, as well as no-knock warrants in drug cases, as was used in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in March. |