Daily Digest for June 3, 2020 Posted at 7:35 a.m. by Cody Nelson
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Good morning and welcome to your Wednesday Capitol View.
First off, several states had primary elections yesterday. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Washington, D.C. held elections. And Pennsylvania held primary voting, but people have another week to turn in their ballots. Follow along here for the results.
Minnesota is launching a broad investigation into Minneapolis Police Department's civil rights record in the wake of George Floyd's killing. Gov. Tim Walz and other state leaders vowed the effort would not end in a report tossed on a dusty shelf, and that they saw it as a way to transform policing in Minnesota so that a killing like Floyd’s and the chaos it sparked never happens again. "This window of opportunity opened,” said Walz. “It won't stay open for long." The investigation will scrutinize policies, procedures, training and practices of the Minneapolis police, said Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero, noting that it is illegal for a police department to discriminate because of race. Lucero said she would seek some quick changes in the department while examining longer-term structural problems at the department that would likely ended in a court-enforced decree.
North Carolina's governor says it's "very unlikely" the Republican National Convention will take place this summer in Charlotte. "The people of North Carolina do not know what the status of COVID-19 will be in August, so planning for a scaled-down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face coverings is a necessity," Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat wrote Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, as NPR reports.
Governors are pushing back against President Trump's urging them to arrest protesters en masse and "put down" violent demonstrations. NPR reports: "In Michigan, where police and protesters have skirmished in Grand Rapids despite many demonstrations remaining peaceful, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, called the president's remarks 'dangerous' and said they should be 'gravely concerning to all Americans.' The president's comments, she said, 'send a clear signal that this administration is determined to sow the seeds of hatred and division, which I fear will only lead to more violence and destruction.'"
Joe Biden condemned Trump's comments and police violence. Again, via NPR: "When peaceful protesters are dispersed by the order of the president from the doorstep of the people's house, the White House — using tear gas and flash grenades — in order to stage a photo op at a noble church, we can be forgiven for believing that the president is more interested in power than in principle ," Biden said. "More interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care. For that's what the presidency is: the duty to care — to care for all of us." |
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