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Bill to Ban Police Use of Restraints that Cut Off Oxygen Passes Assembly Floor

LAWT News ServiceJune 4, 2021

With a 49-5 vote, AB 490 passed the Assembly Floor today. Authored by Chair of Select Committee on Police Reform, Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson), AB 490 seeks to ban law enforcement from using restraints that cause positional asphyxia. 

Floyd spurred broad push for change globally, activists say

Associated Press March 28, 2021

It was, he thought, the same old story: Police kill a Black person, protests erupt, politicians pledge reforms and corporations offer platitudes about supporting needed change. But Wallace, the 38-year-old founder and executive director of Equity and Transformation, a social and economic justice advocacy group in Chicago, came to realize that this time was different.