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June 26, 2020 The United States House has given the green light to a large-scale police reform project to combat racial discrimination and excessive use of force. The measure - approved with 263 votes in favor, all Democrats and three Republicans, and 181 against - arrives in the hours when new controversies mount for the umpteenth death of a man during a police detention. In the video shock, we see a young Hispanic man, Carlos Ingram Lopez handcuffed, who is struggling to breathe and asks the agents for water, in English and Spanish, invoking his grandmother. The mind inevitably returns to May 25, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the day on which George Floyd lost his life after being - for almost 9 minutes - immobilized on the ground by a policeman who kept his knee pressed to his neck. Outrage and protests prompted Tucson, Arizona police chief Chris Magnus to offer his resignation. The images, taken from the agents' body cameras, date back to April 21 and had so far remained unpublished. 

The chief of police said the officers involved in Lopez's arrest did not use suffocation outlets, but still violated their training guidelines, holding the victim in a face-down position for about 12 minutes, before the 27-year-old had cardiac arrest and died on the spot.

The autopsy, US media reported on the case, found that the cause of death was a combination of physical compulsion and cardiac arrest, with complications due to cocaine intoxication.

The police chief in Tucson, Arizona, offered to resign Wednesday following the public release of body camera video from a two-month-old incident in which a man died while in police custody. https://t.co/jnNSRpmnjt

- CNN (@CNN) June 25, 2020

What the reform approved by the Chamber provides
The reform should not be adopted in the Senate, especially after its approval in the Chamber, underlines CNN, follows the rejection of the Senate by a few hours Democrats of a republican bill. Although the parties agree on the need to tackle and curb police violence, efforts to find common ground have become bogged down in partisanship and Congress is stalled. The reform approved in the Chamber - and titled George Floyd - provides provisions for the review of qualified immunity, bans on racial profiling by law enforcement agencies, federal ban on strangulation maneuvers during arrests (they would be classified as a violation of civil rights) and the establishment of a national register of illicit police behavior managed by the Department of Justice. "Today with the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the Chamber is honoring its life and the lives of all those killed by police brutality," said Speaker of the Chamber Nancy Pelosi. Last week Pelosi said he hoped to combine the democratic proposal with the republican one in the Senate. It is not clear, however, whether the Senate will be able to approve any type of measure: in a year of presidential elections, the chances of finding a compromise may be less than usual.

Agent indicted for suffocation maneuver, first after new law passed
A New York police officer was arrested and charged with practicing an illegal suffocation maneuver during an arrest. This is the first such charge against a member of the New York police force since the new law prohibiting him was passed. Prosecutors have filed charges against David Afanador, a 39-year-old Hispanic, which can cost him up to seven years in prison. He had been suspended without pay since Sunday, when the video was released showing him tightening his arm around the neck of an African American on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk during the arrest attempt. In the operation, the detainee - later identified as 35-year-old Ricky Bellevue - lost consciousness. 

The New York Police Department officer seen on video putting a man into a chokehold during an arrest over the weekend has been arrested and charged with "attempted strangulation" and "strangulation," the NYPD said in a statement. https://t.co/97ffTWHBDT

- CNN (@CNN) June 25, 2020