April 24, 2021 Ilhan Omar to reintroduce bill creating new federal board to independently investigate police misconduct Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., plans to reintroduce a bill next week that would create a federal agency to independently investigate police killings and in-custody deaths.
April 20, 2021 Omar, Bowman and 'Squad' Dems react to Chauvin verdict: 'Doesn't change' racism Members of the so-called Squad of House Democrats celebrated that former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty across the board.
April 19, 2021 Pelosi slams Tea Party in new bio, says 'no equivalence' between conservative movement and liberal 'Squad' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new biography slams the Tea Party movement and any comparisons between it and the liberal Squad, despite similarities others pointed out between the right-wing grassroots movement and far-left Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
April 17, 2021 Bill Maher rips Rashida Tlaib's 'no more policing' rhetoric: 'Achilles heel' for Dems is 'common sense' "Real Time" host Bill Maher took aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for her "no more policing" stance amid the unrest from police-involved shootings.
April 16, 2021 AOC showers dozens of vulnerable House Dems with campaign cash Dozens of House Democrats facing tough races in 2022 raked in thousands from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s leadership PAC, a move that may cause headaches for their reelection campaigns.
April 16, 2021 Adam Toledo case: AOC says prosecutor ‘lied about police killing a child’ U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Twitter late Thursday to call out a Cook County prosecutor who commented on the Adam Toledo shooting-death case in Chicago.
April 15, 2021 AOC backs court-packing push: 'We should be expanding the court' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., came out Thursday in support of her fellow Democrats' push to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court.
April 14, 2021 AOC says Daunte Wright death no ‘accident,’ instead part of ‘indefensible system’ In Twitter posts Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opposed the argument that Daunte Wright’s shooting death in Minnesota was an "accident," as police have claimed.
April 13, 2021 Pelosi distances from Tlaib's call to end policing, joining other Dems in calling for reform Speaker Nancy Pelosi distanced herself Tuesday from a fellow House Democrat's call to end policing in America and instead pointed out that all police cannot be painted "with the same brush."
April 12, 2021 Squad member calls for end of US policing, which she says is 'intentionally racist' Squad member and progressive Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib alleged in a Twitter post on Monday that the death of Daunte Wright “wasn’t an accident” as she appeared to call for an end of policing.