The Christian Post | Trump signs executive order incentivizing chokehold bans, policing reforms

Weeks after the Memorial Day death of African American George Floyd, who died after now-fired officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee down on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds as other officers restrained his back and legs, Trump announced a new wide-ranging executive order in a ceremony held in the White House Rose Garden.

In his remarks, Trump stressed that the new executive order encourages police departments across the nation to “adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities.”

“These standards will be as high and as strong as there is on Earth,” Trump said, as he praised the “vast majority” of America’s police officers as “selfless and courageous public servants.”

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