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Evers Announces Special Session on Police Policy Bills
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | August 24, 2020
From WisPolitics.com …
Gov. Tony Evers announced today he is calling a special session on a package of proposals he released earlier this summer to overhaul police policies.
Evers released the package after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis Police officer, but didn’t call a special session at the time despite calls from Black Wisconsin lawmakers.
He signed an executive order today calling the special session for noon Aug. 31 in the wake of a Kenosha Police officer shooting a Black man in the back following a domestic disturbance call.
Evers said he wanted to be clear “this is not the time for politics,” but for legislative action.
“I’m urging Republican leadership to rise up to this important moment in history, to put people before politics and to put the lives of Black Wisconsinites above politics and to give this special session the urgent and productive effort this movement demands and that the people of Wisconsin deserve,” he said in a message that was live streamed early this afternoon.
While the guv can call a special session, he can’t force lawmakers to act.
The package of bills includes establishing a policy that police officers only use deadly force as a last result and banning chokeholds.
See the release here.
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