Biden meets with George Floyd’s family on the anniversary of his death

Joe Biden (Joe Biden) will sit down with George Floyd’s family at the White House on Tuesday as political and business leaders call for more racial justice actions to commemorate Floyd (Floyd). ) The first anniversary of his death.

The President of the United States will hold a private meeting with members of the Freud family, including his youngest daughter Gianna, and then make a statement about Freud’s murder last year, and the former Minneapolis police officer Delhi Derek Chauvin was murdered. is convicted.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that this day was “really affected. [Biden] And it has affected millions of Americans.”

Floyd’s death triggered a wave of protests and calls for the promotion of racial justice in the public and private sectors.Biden used his First joint address Congress urged lawmakers to pass federal police reform legislation before the anniversary of Floyd’s death.

However, the Congressional negotiators missed the deadline because they continued quarrel Last year, the House of Representatives under the control of the Democratic Party passed the “Jordan Floyd Policing Act.” The bill will require the support of at least 10 Republican senators to become law.

The bill would prohibit police from being helpless, establish a national registry to track police misconduct, make it easier for prosecutors to seek punishment for police abuse, and prohibit a “no knock on door” order that allows police to force access to property.

Chief negotiator, Republican Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina, and Democrats Darrys Cory Booker and Karen Bass in a joint statement Zhong said that the first anniversary of Freud’s death was “a painful reminder of why we must make meaningful changes.”

The business roundtable praised efforts to seek a bipartisan agreement and urged Congress to pass “significant police reforms.” Everyone in the National Basketball Association, including former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, also called on senators to pass the bill.

After Floyd’s death, the progress report of Corporate America to commemorate the implementation of the anniversary event required it to make faster progress in diversity, fairness and inclusiveness.

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet (Julie Sweet) said the company has made “substantial progress” in achieving its goals, but “we can and must do more.”

A kind Recent survey Research by Just Capital and Harris Harris found that only 17% of blacks believe that American companies have done enough to promote racial equality in the workplace, less than half of the total population.

General Motors said: “Although it has made great strides, it is not enough to meet the urgency of this historic and decisive moment.” Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA, said: “This Work will not end until the injustice faced by black Americans is over.”

Cheryl Stokes, a partner in the consulting department of the executive search group Heidrick & Struggles, said that in the past year, the company’s behavior has achieved “a certain degree of progress and authenticity.” This is her I have never seen it in the 30 years since I received the training. As a diversity and inclusion consultant.

Roy Swan, head of the Ford Foundation’s mission investment team, said that Floyd’s death “brought these issues to the attention of those in power,” many of whom were concerned about the inequality in the United States. Shocked.

Swan added that research has begun to convince American companies that removing the obstacles faced by many blacks “can be huge profits, not just for the target population.” “It is no longer considered a zero-sum game.”