Biden Backtracks On Pledge To Create Police Commission

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President Biden has decided to table the creation of a commission that was supposed to make recommendations on police reform, which he pledged to do within his first 100 days, as new rioting has broken out in Democrat-controlled Minneapolis following a fatal police shooting of a black man.

“Based on close, respectful consultation with partners in the civil rights community, the administration made the considered judgment that a police commission, at this time, would not be the most effective way to deliver on our top priority in this area, which is to sign the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act into law,” Susan Rice, Biden’s director of the Domestic Policy Council, told Politico.

In addition, Rice claimed that the White House is crafting alternative measures to address police reform by “working with Congress to swiftly enact meaningful police reform that brings profound, urgently needed change.”

That said, it should be noted that “Senate Democrats filibustered police reform legislation presented by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) in 2020, ‘blocking an effort at bipartisan reforms in the wake of nationwide unrest over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month,’” Breitbart News reported.

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