Joe Biden urges Black leaders to ‘keep at’ police reforms effort after death of Tyre Nichols

• Joe Biden and the Congressional Black Caucus met the day after the funeral of Tyre Nichols.
• Biden urged Black politicians to “stay at it” for police reforms.
• The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was blocked by Republicans in 2020.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden expressed his hope that the death of Tyre Nichols following a police beating will prompt Congress to implement police reforms and urged Black politicians to “stay at it.”

Biden and the Congressional Black Caucus met in the Oval Office the day after Nichols’ funeral. Nichols was a Black man who passed away in Memphis on January 10—three days after being viciously beaten by police during a traffic stop.

“My hope is, this dark memory spurs some action that we’ve all been fighting for,” Biden said.

The head of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Steven Horsford, stated following the meeting that Mr. Nichols’ passing was just the most recent illustration of the issue of police violence.

“Yesterday it may have been Tyre Nichols but sadly this incident, these incidents, could happen to anyone,” he told reporters.

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a comprehensive package of changes proposed by Biden’s Democrats, was blocked by Republicans in the Senate in 2020.

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It would have restricted the use of risky chokeholds during arrests, among other things, and would have weakened the legal safeguards that protect police from civil claims. Floyd was another Black guy who passed away following a police arrest.

Asserting that he had compelled some “significant changes” via presidential order—despite the fact that his authority to alter police regulations is severely constrained—Biden added, “You’ve just got to keep at it.” Chokeholds by federal agents were forbidden by one of his instructions.

Black political figures are pressuring Biden to include the topic prominently in his State of the Union address, which the president will deliver before a joint session of Congress and a sizable television audience, on Tuesday.

Horsford stated, “It did come up,” highlighting the significance of the event and claiming that Biden would be “uniquely able to convey the human side of the suffering in his address.

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