House Passes Resolution to Overturn DC Policing Bill

The U.S. House passed a disapproval resolution on April 19 to block the District of Columbia’s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022.
The vote was 229–189. Fourteen Democrats joined all 215 Republicans in voting for the resolution. The resolution is unlikely to advance in the Democratic-led Senate.
The D.C. legislation would prohibit the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPD) and other local law enforcement personnel from using “neck restraints or any other technique that causes asphyxiation, presents an unnecessary danger to the public and constitutes excessive force.”
The law—which the city council passed in December 2022—also approves the use of police body camera footage and requires, with a couple of exceptions, the mayor to release such footage with the names of the officers behind the footage where “officers [were] directly involved in the officer-involved death or serious use of force.”…}