[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9141]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             TIME TO MAKE PROTECTING THIS NATION A PRIORITY

  (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, I rise today to express my anger 
at what I saw on the video that was taken of the event down in 
McKinney, Texas, on Friday, in which a big and burly police officer, 
wearing white socks, manhandled a young, 15-year-old Black girl in a 
bathing suit and man-handled other young Black people who were there 
simply to attend a pool party.
  That kind of heavyhanded, out-of-control police misconduct must be 
stopped in this country. We must do something about it. I was so angry 
that I could not be there to do something about it, but I am here to do 
something about it. I pledge to the people to do everything I can to 
make sure that we eliminate those kinds of officers from police forces 
throughout the country.

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