TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY CONGRESSMAN CLEAVER TOUTS POLICE REFORM BILL AMID AFTERMATH OF BALTIMORE RIOTS & FERGUSON UNREST!!!



A lot of people don't have much to contribute to the discussion of increased racial tension and rioting throughout the the nation. Thankfully, Kansas City Congressman Cleaver is focused on solutions to the dilemma which be believes start with more oversight and reform of police.

Take a look:

Congressman Cleaver: “It is clear that there are police officers across this country and people of goodwill who support meaningful policing reforms, such as the utilization of body cameras and ending the policy of taxation by citation. But until Congress steps up to the plate, and – at a minimum — starts to debate legislation on policing reform, it is we as Americans who will be forced to deal with the tragic consequences.”

Check the presser:

Congressman Cleaver Urges Immediate Congressional Action on Policing Reform

Today, Congressman Cleaver released this statement in response to the protests and unrest in Baltimore, Maryland:

“With the recent tragedy and subsequent unrest in Baltimore, Maryland, it is clear now more than ever that we need effective policing reform legislation,” stated Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II. “Congressional inaction must not thwart meaningful action on policing reform. This includes, but is not limited to the Fair Justice Act, which I am working to introduce with Republican support and the CAM-TIP Act, which I have introduced along with Congressman Al Green (D-TX). People in Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland, Baltimore, North Charleston, and cities across the country are crying out for leadership. We, their elected representatives, must not abdicate our responsibilities to act. Political dysfunction should no longer delay policing reform. Make no mistake, this is a matter of life and death.”

“It is clear that there are police officers across this country and people of goodwill who support meaningful policing reforms, such as the utilization of body cameras and ending the policy of taxation by citation. But until Congress steps up to the plate, and – at a minimum — starts to debate legislation on policing reform, it is we as Americans who will be forced to deal with the tragic consequences.”

The Fair Justice Act, which Congressman Cleaver is preparing to introduce, would bar a municipality from exceeding 30% of its general revenue from traffic tickets and fines. Funds exceeding the 30% cap would then go into a state fund for community policing efforts. It would require each state to pass its own law capping traffic fines at 30% within a year after enactment. The bill would also bar local law enforcement agencies from issuing directives that would allow the agency to issue tickets based on motivations of revenue rather than motivations of public safety. Additionally, this bill would effectively ban police from carrying out “taxation by citation.”

H.R. 1124, the Camera Accountability Maintenance and Transparency in Policing Act of 2015, would establish a grant program for the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of body worn cameras for law enforcement officers. This legislation is important to any and all members of the public who encounter a law enforcement officer, and it is important for the officers themselves. The goal is to increase transparency, protect the rights of all parties involved, and to provide better evidence for any police investigation, both for the citizens and the officers. The bill also calls for a study on the use of body-worn cameras and the establishment of a task force to provide recommendations on community policing.
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Comments

  1. But TKC, you need to mention that in both Missouri and Kansas there are efforts to keep police footage and documentation away from the public. We're moving closer to a society that has a great deal of spying but not much public oversight or access to information.

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  2. DOWN WITH THE POLICE STATE

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  3. That's clear and concise

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  4. How about the REAL ISSUE -- GETTING BLACK AMERICA TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR THUG BEHAVIOR.

    AND STOP MAKING EXCUSES!

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  5. Let's give it up for good, ole Car Wash Cleaver!!! Yeah brutha, take their shit and make em like it!

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  6. Reform your own people first.

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  7. Wall street?

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  8. 4:45

    Is dead on the money. 8 to 10,000 dead blacks killed by other blacks every year.

    Guess what dumbfuck, it ain't the cops you gotta worry about in this world, it's black people.

    Filthy low life thugs, running wild in the streets because Liberals run America.

    Fuck you Cleaver and fuck all your violent, scum bag, indolent, entitled thugs in the street, with the brains of a brick, yelling for justice.

    Start killing each other faster, it is the ONLY thing you miserable fucks contribute to society.

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  9. It appears many folks have a
    misunderstanding that skin color makes a difference in a politician's idealogy of the two party system that enslaved the black population the past 40 years

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  10. Whites go to prison too

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  11. The savage mind idealogy worked for the Victorian Period but it now transformed since the 1940s as The Southern Strategy

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  12. Cleaver when you can pay your bills and admit blacks are the issue then and only then will I listen to anything you say. Till then how about a nice cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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  13. Why is it that latino illegals can come across the border and find jobs in no time while blacks who have lived here all their lives can't seem to find work? Thats right, they don't want to. Its so much easier to throw the race card around so shit gets steered their way.

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  14. Until cities stop electing the same old same old, nothing will improve. But I guess that's racist of me for pointing that out

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  15. How can blacks be the issue?
    Police men killing blacks is the issue?
    That's not an excuse, that's a reason.

    The power to riot, & destroy middle class property is the only power that the poor have. You think its terrible, but your middle class.

    The poor people in Baltimore didn't miss the baseball game, because they can't afford to go anyway.

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    1. Ignorant welfare barnacle.

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  16. Cleaver and the rest of the Congress Clowns ought to spend a bit of time studying human behavior. All the body cameras in the world won't help if they "forget" to turn them on or the "malfunction". If you want real reform you need to do three things: roll back the various leo bills of rights that grant police virtual immunity from prosecution; make cash settlements with those abused by police come directly out of police pension funds; and prohibit government at all levels from replenishing pension funds effected by such cash settlements. This is how you change behavior and begin the process of returning to polite society.

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  17. Why is he touting new legislation when he supports occupying Black neighborhoods with grotesquely sprawling police facilities?

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  18. I know one white man I wish the police would kill.

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  19. The Truth and Nothing But The Truth4/29/15, 6:48 PM

    Gray has a lengthy criminal record with over 20 arrests since 2007 for selling drugs, burglary,making drugs, assaults, the list goes on. Clearly he’s a low level thug at age 25, with two arrests just weeks before an incident in March.

    So glad to see an upstanding citizen such as this is now dead.

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  20. Byron I somewhat agree. But I never rioting by white people cops kill white people. There is a point where rioting is just an excuse to steal. Protest yes, but rioting never

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  21. Byron is what the famous and former senator of Byron's, Robert Byrd used to call a "WHITE NIGGER" so you can see Byron's identification with the African-American situation. He will probably call me a cunt or a bitch and a coward for posting anonymously but considering the nut job trolls like Byron, posting anonymously makes sense and besides, I have both children and sheep so I have an obligation to both.

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  22. Never forget that as may our, cleaver spent 100,000$ of tax money for a saxophone in the jazz museum. That should tell you about his decision making abilities

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  23. Byron wants ass raped by field hands and house niggers4/29/15, 7:45 PM

    Byron you worthless cunt. If not for the middle class you and your black brothers and sisters would be eating dirt pies and dog shit. Ill bet your parents and brother curse the day you were born.

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  24. The Old Beatnik4/29/15, 8:29 PM

    Silvestor, the Bird was a junkie, he was always buy and hocking saxophones, and this one was plastic, so it not like Sly paid $100K for the sax that the Bird carried his whole life. The one he had most of the time is owned by a lady in Portland, who dad was a musician and Charlie gave him the tick for more cash. And that is the straight scoop daddyo.

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    1. Thanks for clearing that up I always thought it was the other way (and you type like a beatnik)

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  25. The Old Beatnik4/29/15, 8:30 PM

    Excuse my typos, I am undergoing self administrated chemo therapy for my glaucoma.

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  26. Negro reverend Cleaver is a dangerous man worthy of keeping a close eye on.

    That man is evil to his soul while hiding behind GOD.

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  27. Speaking of dangerous AND stupid....I see Byron is finished fucking sheep and decided to enlighten us with some West Virginia civil rights.

    Fucking child molester.

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  28. Funny as hell. How long has Cleaver been in power? How long has this administration been in power, 6 plus years, to bring hope and change? How long have the democrats been in power in Baltimore? What is the racial profile of the government and police department in Baltimore, yet Cleaver is probably blaming Bush. WHAT A TOOL.

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  29. Breaking news from Baltimore: it appears me grey kicked his own ass

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  30. Body cameras are fine with me. My hunch is that they won't work out the way the Black Grievance Industry wants them to. Instead of seeing wanton police brutality we're more likely to see scenes of black dysfunction that will have more and more people recognizing reality.

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  31. Dear Mr. Tony: Potentiall interesting news item on the Baltimore case. Seems that the expected report due this Friday will be "delayed." Translation: There are some facts in this case that are not going to be pleasing to the zealots on either extreme; so the political class needs some more time to lie their way out of their responsibility for creating another disaster for a major US city. The Ferguson tragedy has led to an explosion of violence in the black neighborhoods of Saint Louis; I suspect the same will happen in Baltimore. Once again, as in Ferguson, the Duke Lacrosse case, Tawana Brawley, etc,, the nation's poiticos have created a disaster by rushing to judgment before the facts of the matter were clear. Take care. Sincerely and REspectfully, Ernest Evans

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  32. Let's not forget that less than a year ago, Cleaver voted in favor of maintaining the Militarization of police in this country. He should be challenged with his record of voting against the interests of his constituents.

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