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119-hres-451119th CongressWALLET

Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs.

Sponsored By: Representative Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]

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Summary

End police brutality and impunity worldwide. This resolution would condemn excessive force, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, torture, and the misuse of lethal and less‑lethal crowd‑control weapons, while urging U.S. policy changes to reduce militarized policing and hold officers and governments accountable.

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  • Communities and vulnerable groups: Recognizes that police brutality disproportionately harms racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, women, migrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. It cites an estimate of about 19,000 people killed by police worldwide each year.
  • Foreign partners and companies: Would prohibit U.S. sales of arms, ammunition, and less‑lethal policing equipment and bar police training and other security assistance to countries with demonstrated patterns of human rights violations or impunity. It also calls on U.S. firms that sell policing gear to adopt strict protocols forbidding such sales.
  • U.S. policing, protesters, and funding priorities: Calls for ending the use of militarized equipment and tactics in policing domestically and abroad, stands with peaceful protesters, and urges shifting funding toward peacebuilding, job training, counseling, mental health, and violence‑prevention programs.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Calls to end police brutality

If adopted, this resolution would condemn police brutality wherever it occurs. It would call on the U.S. government and law enforcement to take immediate steps to eliminate police brutality and impunity in the United States. It would recognize that vulnerable groups are disproportionately harmed. This is a policy statement and would not itself create new laws or funding.

Ban police arms and training exports

If adopted, this resolution would call on the U.S. government to prohibit export sales of arms, ammunition, and less-lethal policing equipment to countries with patterns of security-force human rights abuses or impunity. It would also call for a ban on other security assistance, including police training, to those countries and urge U.S. sellers to adopt strict sale protocols. It would ask to end militarized policing tactics at home and abroad. The resolution would not itself change export laws or funding rules.

More funding for jobs and peace

If adopted, this resolution would ask the U.S. government to shift money, at home and abroad, toward peacebuilding, job training, counseling, mental health, and violence-prevention programs. It would not set dollar amounts or force Congress to make specific appropriations.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]

MN • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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