Bold campaign promises to reform criminal justice are stymied at the state level and amid partisan point-scoring in Congress
Two years to the day since George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Joe Biden stood in the White House and signed an executive order he argued should instill optimism and hope among reform advocates across the country.
It was late afternoon in the spring of this year, and among the attendees were members of Floyd’s family and the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly before Floyd’s death.