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[Scott is] one of just three Black Republicans in all of Congress, is the lead Republican in the Senate on police reform and was responsible for drafting the Justice Act, the GOP’s [failed] police reform bill. Meanwhile, Democrats’ bill, the more expansive George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, passed the House but was not taken up by the then-Republican Senate.
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Scott noted that the provisions both bills have in common are the foundation for compromise legislation — federal funding incentives for departments that ban chokeholds, more grants for body cameras, federally criminalizing lynching, and creating a use-of-force database in the Justice Department in order to document and study how police officers use force.
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The issue of qualified immunity has been a sticking point in negotiations. Qualified immunity refers to legal protections for police officers. Instead of weakening qualified immunity for individual officers, Scott has proposed allowing civil suits to be brought against departments.