Schumer Calls on McConnell to Consider Police Reform Legislation

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, departs from a moment of silence held to honor George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 4, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on June 9 called on Senate Republicans to consider police reform legislation that House and Senate Democrats released a day earlier.

Describing the legislation (pdf) as banning the use of chokeholds, limiting the transfer of military weaponry to police departments, and altering legal standards to make it easier to hold police officers accountable, Schumer said on the Senate floor in Washington that “the moment does not call for half measures.”