Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 18

Even more interesting than the candle - the SPD can't figure out who gave the order to abandon the eastern precinct.

A table from the article.

Policing reform proposals
Key elements of the sweeping plans to reform policing in the U.S. offered by Democrats and Republicans in Congress:

TOPIC	DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL	REPUBLICAN PROPOSAL
Use of force standard	Would change standard to only when necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury; would require de-escalation techniques; would condition federal grants on agencies applying same standard.	Would develop program for alternatives to use of force, de-escalation and responding to behavioral health issues.
Use of force reporting	Would require states to notify Justice Department of any instance of use of force against a civilian or an officer.	Would require state and local jurisdictions to report misconduct to FBI for inclusion in database. Grant program would pay for compliance.
Use of chokeholds and carotid holds by police	Would ban the practice and condition federal funding on local agencies' ban of the practice.	Would require local agencies to adopt policies restricting the use of chokeholds except where deadly force is authorized; would condition federal grant money on compliance.
Reporting police misconduct	Would create a registry of all officers that compiles misconduct complaints, disciplinary records, certifications and termination notices.	Would require agencies to keep personnel and disciplinary records for 30 years, including substantiated allegations of misconduct; would require an agency hiring an officer to review the records; conditions federal funding on compliance.
Police immunity from litigation	Would allow individuals to recover damages when police violate their rights.	Not addressed.
Police body cameras	Would require use of body cameras by federal law enforcement and would direct local agencies to use federal funds to equip officers.	Would create new grant program to help agencies buy body cameras and develop best practices for their use.
Police bias training	Would mandate training on racial, religious or other discriminatory profiling; Would condition federal funding on adoption of policies to combat profiling.	Would fund racism education program created by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
No-knock warrants	Would ban the practice for drug cases at federal level and condition funding for state and local agencies on prohibition of practice for drug cases. Would require data on use of no-knock warrants to be reported to U.S. attorney general.	Grant program would pay for compliance.
Military equipment for police	Would limit the transfer of such gear to local law enforcement agencies.	Not addressed.
Lynching	Would make lynching a federal hate crime.	Would add an anti-lynching conspiracy provision to federal law.
Fellow officer intervention	Not addressed.	Would provide money to develop training program to promote a duty for officers to intervene if another has crossed the line.
Falsifying police reports	Not addressed.	Would add new criminal penalties for falsifying reports in connection with civil rights violations.

This was a good article about them from last week too: How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War