Does everyone realize the House Dems bill includes upping funding for police by nearly $1 billion?  And doesn't address any of the reform issues the Amash/Presly bill does? I smell red herring in taking a knee wearing kente cloth (see illus.)

Defense Lawyers Question the Scope of ‘Tepid’ Police Reform Bill Pushed by Democrats

by Colin Kalmbacher @ LawandCrime.com, Jun 8th, 2020, 6:15 pm

[....] The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 is officially authored by Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) as well as Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

The proposal is being promoted by supporters in Congress as both “bold” and “unprecedented,” but advocates and organizations long-focused on reforming the institution of American policing say that such characterizations of the bill are a bit of an oversell. Others insist the bill may do more harm than good to African American communities.

“Tepid,”criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield said via Twitter. “How about requiring FBI to record interrogations, banning anal [and] vaginal digital searches, requiring overt act for [federal] drug conspiracies, ending stash house prosecutions, cutting sentencing guidelines, removing marijuana from Schedule 1, ending [qualified immunity], to name a few others?”

Other critics faulted the bill for ignoring one of the demands of the #BlackLivesMatter movement: the call for reductions to police budgets nationwide. Instead, tucked into various sections, the Justice in Policing Act authorizes nearly $1 billion additional dollars in law enforcement spending.

“We will reject any measure that calls for increases in police funding—it is anathema to our goal of keeping Black communities safe,” Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney Angelo Guisado told Law&Crime. “Take that money and fund the community with jobs, education, debt cancellation, and direct payments instead.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a similarly harsh assessment of the proposed increases to American police budgets.

“The bill introduced today takes significant steps to protect people and ensure accountability against police violence,” said the ACLU’s senior legislative counsel Kanya Bennett. “But the legislation also provides hundreds of millions more to law enforcement, and for the ACLU, that’s a nonstarter [....]