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Anti-lynching bill stalls in Senate as emotions run high

''Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is single-handedly holding up the legislation, which has broad support.''

Standing near a statue of Frederick Douglass, Sen. Kamala Harris, left, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Sen. Cory Booker, pause during a prayer Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 4, 2020.Susan Walsh / AP

June 5, 2020, 7:46 AM EDT / Updated June 5, 2020, 8:19 AM EDT By Associated Press

''WASHINGTON — A Senate impasse over a widely backed bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime boiled over on Thursday in an emotional debate cast against a backdrop of widespread protests over police treatment of African Americans.''

Raw feelings were evident as Sen. Rand Paul

— who is single-handedly holding up the bill despite letting it pass last year

— sought changes to the legislation as a condition of allowing it to pass.

But the Senate’s two black Democrats, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California, protested, saying the measure should pass as is. The debate occurred as a memorial service was taking place for George Floyd, a Minneapolis man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, sparking the protests that have convulsed the nation.

The Senate unanimously passed virtually identical legislation last year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-makes-lynching-federal-crime-65-years-after-emmett-till-n1143626

The House then passed it by a sweeping 410-4 vote in February but renamed the legislation for Till

— the sole change that returned the measure to the Senate.

>>15103412

>The Senate unanimously passed virtually identical legislation last year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-makes-lynching-federal-crime-65-years-after-emmett-till-n1143626

Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Emmett Till

Congress previously failed to pass anti-lynching legislation nearly 200 times, starting with a bill introduced in 1900 by North Carolina Rep. George Henry White, the only black member of Congress at the time.

Feb. 26, 2020, 3:12 PM EST / Updated Feb. 26, 2020, 9:00 PM EST By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.

''The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush ''and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation and after dozens of similar efforts were defeated.

Rush, a Democrat whose Chicago district includes Till's former home, said the bill will belatedly achieve justice for Till and more than 4,000 other lynching victims, most of them African Americans.

Booker called lynching “a pernicious tool of racialized violence, terror and oppression” and “a stain on the soul of our nation.'' While Congress cannot undo lynching's irrevocable damage, ”we can ensure that we as a country make clear that lynching will not be tolerated,” Booker said.

>>15103422

Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey applauded House passage of the bill, which they co-sponsored in the Senate along with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. The three are the Senate's only black members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Rush

Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23, 1946) is an American politician, activist, pastor, and the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district, serving in Congress for more than two decades.

''A civil rights activist during the 1960s, Rush co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party.[1]==

In 1968, he went AWOL from the Army and co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers. He later finished his service, receiving an honorable discharge from the Army.

After Black Panther Fred Hampton was assassinated by the Chicago Police Department and the State's Attorney Office in a police raid, Rush said, "We needed to arm ourselves", and referred to the police as "pigs".[4]

>>15103512

I am hard of hearing.

What did the kids shout out?

>>15103619

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