With a few strokes of his pen, President Joe Biden circumvented Congress to deliver, as the White House put it, “the most significant police reform in decades.”
Biden's official Twitter account announced the news and chastised Republicans who the president claimed had “stood in the way of progress.” (RELATED: Our Flawed Criminal Justice System)
The order updates use-of-force policies for federal law enforcement agencies, including the use of no-knock warrants and chokeholds.
Local law enforcement will be encouraged to adopt the same reforms by awarding federal grants to compliant departments. (RELATED: Biden's New Budget Doesn't Absolve Him of Attacks on Police)
The White House broadcast the ceremony live, which coincided with the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.
The Daily Wire reports:
Harris went on to outline the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, noting that it had passed the House under Speaker Nancy Pelosi's leadership and blaming Republicans in the Senate for failing to vote in favor of the measure.
She went on to clarify that the order was not intended to take the place of legislation, adding that there were still more reforms needed that it did not address.
Biden stepped up to speak after Harris, and again began his remarks with an attack on the gun lobby. He then repeated the lie he has told in the past about private ownership of cannons at the time the Second Amendment was written.
“The Second Amendment is not absolute,” Biden claimed. “When it was passed, you couldn't own — you couldn't own a cannon.”
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I don’t remember “selecting” Biden or anyone else, King!
hi sid, do you remember rump? he pretended to be king and no one selected him. as a matter of mathematics, you do remember that, mathematics?
people, American people, selected Biden!
How are Biden caused price hikes working out for you? Are still thinking your king hangs the moon and the stars? What a joke!!
Where in the Constitution does it say you can not own a cannon??? More democrat bull-crap ??
really x-hole, oh sorry non-x-man3. Very clever… x-man3, Like super!
you really want your neighbor, or some African American owning a cannon?
It’s time for this moron to be put back in his rubber room and a real leader for we the people to step up and fix this cluster fk he’s got going on. 40 million to Uktaine and now the gun crap again we can’t afford gas and he pushing us to be forced into his way or no way.
Let’s go, Brandon.
It is obvious that the circus has come to the White House. It’s a three ringer with Brandon as the ring master and with nothing more than clowns only performing under the big top.
Policing is a local and state responsibility, not federal, except narrowly defined law enforcement. Federal law enforcement (e.g. FBI, Border enforcement, etc.). “Shall not be infringed” sounds pretty darned absolute to me. Study the founders’ intent, knowing they three off an oppressive regime.