Legislators and civil rights advocates in the United States are calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to do more to advance police reform after the violent arrest of a Black motorist in Memphis this month renewed calls to end police brutality in the country.Speaking at Wednesday’s funeral for Tyre Nichols, who died after police officers beat him on January 7, Vice President Kamala Harris said Washington would settle for nothing less than ambitious federal legislation to end police violence.“This violent act was not in pursuit of public safety,” Harris said in reference to the beating, as she addressed mourners from the pulpit of Memphis’s Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church.
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