https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/505295-if-only-woke-protesters-knew-how-close-they-were-to-meaningful-police
Shamelessly denying Republicans the 60 votes needed to openly debate a GOP-proposed bill, Senate Democrats stripped Americans of the opportunity to pass meaningful reforms for an issue that’s turned the nation upside down.
The vote, which occurred last week, provides further evidence that the ongoing riots and protests aren’t about George Floyd or police reform. They’re about control.
The media, for its part, hardly cared. They enabled obstruction while hardly pressing Democrats to explain their objections.
“Tim Scott’s bill is a half-assed bill that doesn’t do what we should be doing, which is doing honest police reform,” Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono (D) offered.
The “watered-down policing bill is meant to derail meaningful reform,” said California Sen. Kamala Harris (D).
“The Republican bill is really just disastrously weak,” said Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D).
These statements were only to be outdone by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who unapologetically accused Senate Republicans of “trying to get away with murder, actually — the murder of George Floyd.”
Truly, a remarkable statement about her colleagues in Congress.