George Floyd’s Family Urges Police Reform After Meeting With Biden, Harris

IT WASN’T what President Joe Biden and the family of George Floyd had hoped – that the president would mark the somber anniversary of Floyd’s killing by a now-incarcerated former police officer by signing a sweeping federal law overhauling policing.

But the Floyd family, after spending more than an hour in a private meeting with Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House, sounded optimistic as they urged Americans to join them in pressuring Congress for reform.

“If you can make federal laws to protect the bird, which is a bald eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color,” Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, said as the family left the White House. Despite the fact that the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act did not get enacted by Biden’s deadline of the anniversary of the Minneapolis man’s death, “we’re just thankful for what’s going on,”