[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4800]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        LAW ENFORCEMENT USING THEIR GUNS INSTEAD OF THEIR HEADS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it feels like open season on 
black men in America, and I am outraged. In fact, all Americans are at 
risk when bad actors in law enforcement use their guns instead of their 
heads.
  Despite bipartisan, nationwide calls for action and despite my bills 
to reform the broken grand jury process, hold police accountable, and 
end militarization and despite my colleagues' bills to encourage body 
cameras, this Congress does nothing--no hearings, no blue ribbon 
commissions--nothing.
  Mr. Speaker, here are just a few names of our colleagues, neighbors, 
and relatives killed by police, so my colleagues will no longer ignore 
this crisis: Walter Scott, North Carolina; Michael Brown, Missouri; 
Anthony Hill, Georgia; Tony Robinson, Wisconsin; Kevin Davis, Georgia; 
Nicholas Thomas, Georgia; Daniel Elrod, Nebraska; Antonio Zambrano-
Montes, Washington; David Kassick, Pennsylvania; Jessica Hernandez, 
Colorado; Kevin Davis, Georgia; Dennis Grigsby, Texas; Rumain Brisbon, 
Phoenix; Tamir Rice, Ohio; Akai Gurley, New York; Carlos M. Perez, 
Nevada; Kajieme Powell, Missouri; Ezell Ford, California; Dillon 
Taylor, Utah; John Crawford III, Ohio; Naeschylus Vinzant, Colorado; 
Charly Leundeu Keunang, California; and the list goes on.

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