WASHINGTON - The family of George Floyd will meet on Tuesday with President Joe Biden and several lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
on the one year anniversary of his death amid the push to pass a policing bill in his name.The killing of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died at the hands of a White Minneapolis police officer, sparked a global reckoning over systemic racism and movement for police reform.
The meetings will occur as Congress mulls a bill called the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would ban chokeholds by federal officers and end qualified immunity for law enforcement against civil lawsuits.
It would also create national standards for policing in a bid to bolster accountability.The bill passed the House in March, but.