Banning the Banned Chokehold

Looking at reform from the 2003 racial profiling ban

During the 2000 presidential race, civil rights organizations demanded a federal ban on racial profiling. Democrat Al Gore said, racial profiling ran counter to what the United States was all about, and if entrusted with the presidency, ending racial profiling would be the first civil rights act of the 21st century. Republican George W. Bush said, we have to do everything we can to end racial profiling, but I don’t want to federalize the police. Bush won the presidency and issued the first ban on racial profiling in 2003. Now, I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as a starting point to sympathize with President Trump’s recent executive order banning chokeholds except if the officer’s life is at risk. Then I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as an ending point to draw a different conclusion.

If you start from 2003 and leap to the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, you’ll conclude America’s police problems got worse.

America went from banning racial profiling to banning chokeholds after a handcuffed black man died from a white police officer’s knee on his neck. Immediately following George Floyd’s death, protests and riots erupted across the country. According to the USA Today, the way the Minneapolis police officer restrained…