GOP, Dems in quiet talks on police safety, accountability

Published July 12, 2016 10:12pm ET



A bipartisan group of House lawmakers met with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Tuesday to discuss legislation aimed at protecting police and cracking down on officer-related shootings.

“We’ve been dealing with gun violence and all these massacres that have been going on and we think we’ve got a chance,” Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Washington Examiner as he entered McCarthy’s office. “We think we can do it because there’s agreement that there’s got to be some end to the gun violence.”

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