The Washington, DC, council approved a set of police reforms, days after the protests sparked the death of an African American, George Floyd, whom a policeman pressed his knee to the neck until he died.
The emergency legislation comes as several cities revisit the police approach, but have not reached the level of calls by some civil rights activists to withhold funds from city police departments, and the legislation prohibits the use of neck shackles, such as those used with Floyd.
The new legislation obliges the disclosure of the names and photos taken by cameras installed in the officers' bodies. The US capital police department is also prohibited from hiring people with a proven history of police misconduct.
It places restrictions on non-lethal force and the possession of police departments for military weapons, among other measures.
"There is absolutely no doubt about whether we should reform the police heavily. The only question is whether we and our police commanders are prepared for that challenge," said Washington District Council member Robert White.
For its part, the state of New York decided to prohibit the method of pressing the defendants 'neck during their arrest, and the mayor of Houston, where Floyd was buried, pledged to take a similar decision that prevents police officers from bowing to the defendants' knees.
The members of the American Democratic Party had previously submitted a bill that would restrict the methods of police intervention and facilitate the process of starting investigations against those who misuse their duties.
The president must apologize
In a related context, New York State Governor Andrew Como demanded President Donald Trump apologize for statements in which he accused a seventieth activist of fabricating his fall after a police assault on him.
"Trump should apologize for his tweet," Como quoted the local al-Hurra website as saying, calling it "unacceptable and disgraceful."
Trump wrote in a tweet, "The Buffalo protester may be an instigator of Antiva," the leftist movement he accuses of fomenting violence in the United States since the killing of the black American George Floyd by a white policeman.
The president referred to a report broadcast by "One America News Network" saying that the seventieth protester sought to disrupt the communications devices carried by the police. "Is this a fabricated accident?"
And Saturday, US authorities accused two Buffalo police in New York State of a second-degree assault on a "75-year-old" peace activist, on the back of pushing him to the ground causing a broken head, according to the British Daily Mail.
A video circulated by the media showed two Buffalo police officers pushing the seventieth activist down and knocking him to the ground. Blood was seen bleeding from his head before he was later transferred to the hospital.
The man appeared bleeding on the ground, while dozens of policemen were passing by, without any of them lending a hand.