Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s announcement that the Justice Department would collect data on the use of deadly force by police departments is “an important step” to help “hold law enforcement accountable” for misconduct.
Reid, a former Capitol Hill police officer, said in a statement Friday that police brutality is “indisputable,” especially for minorities.
“Americans are rightly outraged by the epidemic of police brutality that has long plagued our nation,” Reid said in a statement.
Reid blamed Republicans in Congress for failing to take some kind of legislative action, and said the announcement by Lynch “should be the first of many steps to address the root causes of this senseless violence and rebuild the broken bonds of trust between communities and their police departments.”
