# 119-hres-451: Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs.

119-hres-451, Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs., is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] (D-MN); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hres-451
- Congress: 119
- Title: Expressing condemnation for police brutality wherever in the world it occurs.
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-29
- Sponsor: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] (D-MN)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## 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. - 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.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Calls to end police brutality: benefit, medium. 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. T…
- More funding for jobs and peace: benefit, low. 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.
- Ban police arms and training exports: mixed, medium. 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 tr…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-10421: Transforming Education for the Future Act
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-2038: American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4714: End Polluter Welfare Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act

## Sources
- [119-hres-451 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/451)

## Related
- [119-hr-10421: Transforming Education for the Future Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10421)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-2038: American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2038)
- [119-hr-4714: End Polluter Welfare Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4714)
- [119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3971)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-451 (as of 2026-04-21).