Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs.
Shown here: Introduced in House (2025-05-29)
Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs.
That the House of Representatives—
(1) condemns police brutality wherever in the world it occurs;
(2) stands with peaceful protesters around the world in their calls for justice and accountability for police brutality;
(3) recognizes that police brutality disproportionately targets already vulnerable populations, including racial, ethnic, religious minorities, women, migrants, and the LGBTQIA+ community;
(4) recognizes that impunity for police brutality undermines the rule of law, erodes public confidence in state institutions and degrades social cohesion;
(5) calls on the United States Government to—
(A) take immediate and significant steps to eliminate police brutality and impunity for police brutality in the United States;
(B) prohibit the sales of arms, ammunition, and “less-lethal” policing equipment to countries with demonstrated patterns of human rights violations by security forces or impunity for human rights violations by security forces;
(C) prohibit other forms of security assistance, including police training, to countries with demonstrated patterns of human rights violations by security forces or impunity for human rights violations by security forces;
(D) use its voice, vote, and influence in international institutions to work toward the elimination of police brutality and ending impunity for police brutality around the world;
(E) end the use of militarized equipment and tactics in policing both at home and abroad; and
(F) reallocate funding in both the United States and abroad to peacebuilding, job training, counseling and mental health programming, and violence-preventing programming; and
(6) calls on businesses based in the United States that sell lethal and less-lethal policing equipment to adopt strict protocols prohibiting the sale of such articles to countries with demonstrated patterns of police brutality or impunity for police brutality.