乔·拜登总统将于周二在白宫会见弗洛伊德家族的成员，以纪念乔治·弗洛伊德逝世一周年，因为国会准备错过总统通过弗洛伊德记忆中的警察改革立法的最后期限。
一年前的星期二，前明尼阿波利斯警官德里克·肖万跪在弗洛伊德的脖子上超过九分钟后，弗洛伊德去世了，拜登称之为“国家的警钟”，并在世界各地引发抗议，呼吁警察改革和结束系统性的种族主义。
他的去世导致了一项名为《乔治·弗洛伊德治安正义法案》的立法，该法案最初于2020年6月提出，并于3月由众议院通过。拜登将弗洛伊德逝世周年纪念日作为法案通过的最后期限，但周二的会议不太可能包括立法的签署。
去年夏天，拜登在弗洛伊德在休斯顿举行葬礼之前会见了这家人和他们两个交谈在肖万被判谋杀和过失杀人罪之前和之后。
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乔治·弗洛伊德的照片在从林肯纪念堂到马丁·路德的游行中被携带
“你真是不可思议，你是一个不可思议的家庭。我希望我能在那里拥抱你，”在有罪判决后，拜登在电话中对家人说。
“我渴望见到你们。真的是。我们会做得更多，我们会做得更多。我们将坚持下去，直到完成。”
拜登在上个月首次向国会发表联合讲话时，将周二定为签署警务立法成为法律的最后期限。
拜登在4月份表示:“我的美国同胞们，我们必须团结起来，重建执法部门和他们所服务的人民之间的信任，根除我们刑事司法系统中的系统性种族主义，并以乔治·弗洛伊德的名义实施已经获得众议院通过的警察改革。”
“我们需要共同努力找到共识。但让我们在下个月乔治·弗洛伊德逝世一周年之际完成它。”
演讲后一天，警察暴力受害者的家人，包括弗洛伊德的哥哥菲洛尼斯·弗洛伊德，会见主要立法者在国会山，并去白宫谈论推进立法。
菲洛尼斯·弗洛伊德当时说:“这项立法上面有我哥哥的血和所有其他家庭的血。”。
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乔·拜登总统对前总统米恩谋杀案的判决做出回应
尽管几周来，一个两党议员小组一直在就该法案进行谈判，但白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)上周五承认，预计国会不会在拜登的最后期限前完成工作，因为议员们在该法案的关键条款上仍存在分歧，包括所谓的“自由贸易”问题警官的“合格豁免”。
众议院民主党在3月份以220票对212票的多数党内投票通过了该法案中的其他条款，包括为警察部门的运作建立一个国家标准，为警察不当行为的数据建立一个国家登记册，简化联邦法律以起诉过度使用武力，以及禁止扣押和禁止搜查令。
参议院的民主党人在6月阻止了共和党参议员蒂姆·斯科特(Tim Scott)提出的一项竞争性措施，他们说这还不够。
“他们继续进行良好的讨论。这是一个积极的信号。所以，你知道，我们不会放慢我们完成这件事的努力。但是，我们也可以对需要更多时间的事实保持透明。有时候，这种情况会发生，没关系，”普萨基说。
白宫没有给出希望该法案何时通过的最新截止日期，只是说拜登希望“尽快将其签署成为法律”。
Biden to meet with George Floyd's family 1 year after his death as policing bill stalls
President Joe Biden will mark the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death on Tuesday by meeting with members of the Floyd family at the White House as Congress is poised to miss the president's deadline for passing police reform legislation named in Floyd's memory.
Floyd died a year ago Tuesday after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for over nine minutes, which Biden called "a wake up call to the country" and sparked protests around the world calling for police reform and an end to systemic racism.
His death led to legislation called the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which was originally introduced in June 2020 and passed by the House of Representatives in March. Biden had held out the anniversary of Floyd's death as a deadline for the bill's passage, but Tuesday’s meeting is unlikely to include a signing of the legislation.
Biden previously met with the family ahead of Floyd’s funeral in Houston last summerand spoke with them bothbefore and after Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death.
"You've been incredible, you're an incredible family. I wish I were there to put my arms around you," Biden told the family on the call following the guilty verdicts.
"I'm anxious to see you guys. I really am. We're going to get a lot more done, we're going to do a lot. We're going to stay at it til we get it done."
Biden, during his first joint address to Congress last month, set Tuesday as a deadline for signing the policing legislation into law.
"My fellow Americans, we have to come together to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve, to root out systemic racism in our criminal justice system, and to enact police reform in George Floyd’s name that passed the House already," Biden said in April.
“We need to work together to find a consensus. But let’s get it done next month, by the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.”
A day after that speech, the families of victims of police violence, including Floyd's brother Philonise Floyd,met with key lawmakerson Capitol Hill and went to the White House to talk about moving legislation forward.
"This legislation has my brother blood on it and all the other families' blood on it," Philonise Floyd said at the time.
While a bipartisan group of lawmakers has been engaged in negotiations over the legislation for weeks, White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged Friday that Congress was not expected to meet Biden’s deadline, as lawmakers remain at odds over key provisions of the bill, including the issue of so-called"qualified immunity" for police officers.
Other provisions in the bill House Democrats passed on a mostly party-line vote of 220-212 in March include establishing a national standard for the operation of police departments, creating a national registry for data on police misconduct, streamlining federal law to prosecute excessive force and banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
Democrats in the Senate blocked a competing measure in June by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., that they said did not go far enough.
"They're continuing to have good discussions. And that is a positive sign. So, you know, we are not going to slow our -- slow our efforts to get this done. But, we can also be transparent about the fact that it’s gonna take a little bit more time. That sometimes -- that happens, and that's OK," Psaki said.
The White House did not give an updated deadline on when it would like to see the bill passed, saying only that Biden would like to "sign it into law as quickly as possible."
