During the hearing Democrat members of Congress echoed these calls to amend the Civil Rights Act and for the entire DHS to “completely overhaul, rebuild from the bottom up and house clean from the top down,” said Blumenthal. “Politicians are laying blame at the feet of law enforcement instead of looking in the mirror at how they have fueled the hatred and violent attacks we are seeing against federal law enforcement officers,” McLaughlin continued. “We can’t get to it unless these people can have the right to sue federal law enforcement officers in the same way that the estate of George Floyd was able to sue the police officers who murdered him.”
Author: Virginia Grace McKinnon
Published at: 2026-02-04 22:10:08
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