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Minnesota Dems Push to Repeal School Ban on Restraint That Killed George Floyd (www.the74million.org)

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Nearly four years after George Floyd suffocated to death while being pinned face down to the pavement by a police officer, Minnesota Democrats are fast-tracking legislation that would undo a less-than-year-old ban prohibiting school-based cops from using that same type of restraint on students.

As early as Monday, the state’s House of Representatives is slated to consider a proposal that presents a drastic departure from provisions approved by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz — rules that explicitly barred school resource officers from using face-down “prone restraint.”

The ban was part of a broader police reform movement that followed Floyd’s murder. The fatal physical hold led to the largest civil rights protest in U.S. history, a national reckoning on racism, policy reforms that sought to address police brutality and, in Minneapolis and dozens of districts nationwide, the removal of sworn officers from school campuses. In Minnesota, new state rules barred police officers from using chokeholds on people and prone restraints were banned in the state’s prisons.

Now, as the state’s Democrats make a 180-degree turn on the campus reform, education equity advocates have accused state leaders of falling to the political pressure of law enforcement groups ahead of a November election where party lawmakers seek to maintain their narrow majority in the state House. The proposal cleared the House Ways and Means committee earlier this week.

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[–] nymwit@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was it just that he was being held in a prone position or was it perhaps complicated/exacerbated by you know, the cop kneeling on his neck? I mean surely that was the main contributing factor to Floyd's death at the cops' hands, wasn't it? Not just that he was being held on the ground? This long article seems to avoid any details while using the comparison to amp its message.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

I heard it was because he was on drugs.

No, I heard it was because he was already dying of heart failure and the cop was just providing medical assistance

Actually, I heard the cops found him like that.

There was no George Floyd. He's been made up by the far left media to trick liberals into hating the police.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need to stop pretending neoliberals are part of the democratic party.

For decades they have been invading the only left wing party and dragging it to the right.

That's why they get the same corporate donations as Republicans. They want the same shit, and donors buying off both parties guarantees donors always win.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, a lot of the country will only vote for Democrats who barely dip their toe into the left side of the spectrum to throw people a bone on occasion.

That's the only way a Democrat got elected to the Senate in West Virginia. It was Joe Manchin.

I hate it so much.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s the only way a Democrat got elected to the Senate in West Virginia. It was Joe Manchin.

If you ignore history...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_West_Virginia

In 2015 a Republican became senator, the last Republican before that left office in 1959.

Granted, Manchin got Byrd's seat after 50 years, and Byrd had pretty much the views you'd expect for a Senator that started in 1959.

But the recent change is Republican senators from WV.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Don't forget the Democrat governor who switched parties as soon as he took office

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

That’s the only way a Democrat got elected to the Senate in West Virginia. It was Joe Manchin.

Manchin comes from an obscenely wealthy coal family in the state. He could have run under either party and won in a ~~landlord~~ landslide based on that alone.

He just got more concessions from the Democrats, who were more than happy to trade away legislative priorities for a Senate Majority.