Senate panel OKs bill requiring schools to teach teens about interacting with police

Just get rid of the militarized cops and make those that remain fully responsible for their actions!


Senate panel OKs bill requiring schools to teach teens about interacting with police

Texas would require high school students, drivers-in-training and police officers to be taught how law enforcement and civilians should interact under a measure approved by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday. The proposal now heads to the full Senate. Senate Bill 30 is a bipartisan response to deadly encounters between law enforcement and civilians seen in recent years throughout the country. In Texas, it comes after the high-profile case of Sandra Bland, an Illinois woman arrested in Waller County after a traffic stop whose videotaped argument with an officer became national news after she was found hanged to death ...

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