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"How much is a black man's life worth? 20 dollars? Enough is enough. People on the streets are telling you, enough is enough. Be the leaders that this country and the world need."

This is how forceful was a brother of George Floyd, the African American who died in late May from suffocation at the hands of a white agent, during a debate in Congress this Wednesday about police abuses in the United States.

Philonise Floyd was called to testify before the House of Representatives' powerful Judicial Affairs Committee at a hearing in which various proposals for police reform were debated amid growing popular clamor for more forceful action to be taken to officers involved in abuse cases do not go unpunished.

His brother recalled that in the nearly ten minutes that his arrest in Minneapolis lasted, he always called the agents involved "sir." "He was a man with soft manners, he did not defend himself, he listened to all the officers. The man who took his life, who suffocated him for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, continued to call him sir while begging him for his life," he said.

Philonise Floyd, who arrived at the Capitol with a black mask in which an image of her brother was sewn together with a painful "I can't breathe," said he was "tired" of so much pain and hopes that his case ends up being "more than another face on a t-shirt, "so he pleaded with congressmen to push for changes so that law enforcement" is the solution and not the problem " and that his death was not" in vain. "

Philonise Floyd, center, before testifying on the Judicial Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP

During the hearing, the deep divisions in the country were reflected again. Republican Congressman Jim Jordan took his turn to mourn the death of Floyd, a tragedy that "should never have happened", to stop often saying that because of "bad apples" you can not condemn all security forces and criticized proposals calling for the financing or dismantling of police departments.

"The vast majority are responsible, hard-working and heroes. They are the agents who protect the Capitol, who protect us day by day, they are the first to run to the Twin Towers on September 11," added the congressman, who reiterated that There is a big difference between the peaceful protests that followed after his death and the riots and looting that ended in some protests.

His words were applauded by Donald Trump, who since the protests began has defended a heavy-handed policy and criticized the Democratic opposition yesterday through his Twitter account. "This radical left agenda is not going to happen ... Many, like in Minneapolis, want to shut down their police departments. How crazy," the president tweeted.

NEW YORK PREPARES TO REFORM POLICE

While the House of Representatives debates proposals to reform the police forces, some states have already passed bills to that effect. The last to do so has been New York, where this Wednesday the Governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that in the next few days he will ratify a package of measures to prohibit, among other things, the use of the controversial "stranglehold key" .

"The time has come for change and we are going to lead that change so that there will be a police reform in this country," Governor Cuomo said of new state legislation that will allow, for the first time in decades, disciplinary records to stop being secret. and complaints of misconduct against police officers involved in abuse cases.

Changes in New York that come as the city begins to regain its pulse after almost three months paralyzed by the coronavirus, but amid an appeal by experts for extreme precautions, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the main adviser Trump on health issues with which he has not spoken for weeks, who warned on Tuesday that the pandemic "is not yet over."

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