1. Charges Are Brought against All Four Minneapolis Police Officers Involved in the Killing of George Floyd
2. Federal Legislation Establishing a National Use of Force Standard
3. Federal Legislation Designed to Improve Police Accountability
4. Enactment of Federal Racial Profiling Ban
5. Federal Funding for Nationwide Police De-Escalation & Implicit Bias Training
6. Federal Funding for Mental Health & Addiction Based Alternative Response Programs
7. Immediate Adoption of Campaign Zero's #8Can'tWait Policies by Our Cities, Nationwide
8. Federal Law Limiting Militarization of State & Local Police
9. Revisions to Police Union Contracts that Impose Barriers to Accountability
10. House and Senate Joint Resolution Promising to Enact Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform

Arrest of Officers

We, The People, have eyes... and with our own eyes we witnessed four officers participating in the active asphyxiation of George Floyd, and the active aiding and abetting thereof. Our first demand is simple. We demand the immediate arrest of all four officers involved in the killing of George and for charges be filed against each officer for his respective crime.

Establish a National Use of Force Standard

To avoid any confusion as to the appropriate level of force that can be used by the police across the U.S., We demand that a federal Use of Force Standard be established.
To accomplish the foregoing, We demand the federal enactment of law substantially similar to Model Use of Force Policy proposed by Campaign Zero.

Demand 3a - Restrict Qualified Immunity

Today, police officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights are typically shielded from civil rights lawsuits by qualified immunity — a legal rule invented by the courts that blocks lawsuits against government officials for misconduct unless a court has previously decided that the same conduct in the same context was unconstitutional. When only 1% of all killings by police lead to an officer being charged with a crime, we know there is a flaw in the system design. We, the People, demand federal legislation restricting Qualified Immunity.

Demand 3b -Independent Investigations and Prosecutions of Police Officers

- Federal and state legislation requiring independent investigations and prosecutions of police officers involved in killings or other alleged police misconduct that is substantially similar to State of Connecticut General Assembly Bill No. 7103 RE: An Act Concerning Excessive Use of Force;
- That States authorize their respective Departments of Justice to investigate police departments for patterns of practice of unconstitutional policing and require departments to make necessary reforms to end any such policing by adopting State legislation substantially similar to that of California Code, Civil Code - CIV § 52.3, and;
- The reinstitution of the Obama Justice Department Police Investigation Policy.

Demand 3c - Improved Policies Regarding Use of Body Cams by Law Enforcement

We demand the establishment of federal policies governing the use of body cameras that ensure public access to footage, prevents storage of non-essential footage, requires officers to record while on-duty, includes specific disciplinary consequences for violations, and prohibits the cameras from being used with biometric scanning and other surveillance technologies.
Along those lines, We demand federal enactment of legislation substantially similar to: i) the ACLU Model Act for Regulating the Use of Wearable Body Cameras by Law Enforcement, and; ii) State of Colorado House Bill 15-1290 - prohibiting law enforcement agencies from taking or destroying civilian recording devices being used to record officers behavior.

We demand the adoption of Policy proposed by The End Racial Profiling Act into federal law.

Federal Funding for Nationwide Police De-Escalation & Implicit Bias Training

We, the People, recognize that the job of law enforcement is by no means easy! Situations escalate and unfold very quickly which, in turn, make mistakes more likely to occur—especially when split decisions filtered through lenses which have been tainted with conscious or subconscious bias(es). Recognizing this reality, We believe that our government should better equip our law enforcement agents to handle the rigor of the job (thereby protecting us) by better preparing them. As such, We demand immediate federal funding for nationwide police de-escalation and implicit bias trainings to be provided for state and local law enforcement departments that require and implement such trainings on a quarterly basis.

Federal Funding for Mental Health & Addiction Based Alternative Response Programs

We, the People, demand immediate federal funding for localities that wish to develop alternative response programs--such as Oregon's CAHOOTS first responder program--to respond to mental health crises and issues like homelessness and substance abuse, including by deploying first responder teams of mental health providers and community intervention workers to the scene to handle these issues instead of police officers.

Immediate Adoption of the #8Can'tWait Policies by Our Cities, Nationwide

We, The People, demand that Our cities across the U.S. adopt all eight of the policies proposed by Campaign Zero's #8Can'tWait campaign set forth at 8cantwait.org

Federal Legislation Limiting Militarization of State & Local Police Forces

We, The People, are not enemy combatants, and demand that you stop treating us as such. We demand federal law restricting any state or local purchase of military equipment by state or local law enforcement without such law enforcement department first getting approval from its respective local or state governing body.

More Reasonable Police Union Contracts Eliminating Barriers to Accountability

We demand a reduction in local, state and federal funding to police departments that have union contracts that have provisions that impose barriers to accountability, including provisions that:
- Disqualify misconduct complaints if investigations take a year or longer to complete
- Restrict or delay interrogations of officers
- Give officers the evidence against them and names of their accusers prior to interrogations
- Limit officer discipline/community oversight or allow police to get reinstated by arbitrators
- Require cities to give officers paid leave when they commit misconduct or
- Erase or otherwise limit public access to police misconduct records

To the Unions, We, the People, ask that you help us come up with terms that provide your Brothers and Sisters in Blue with reasonable legal coverage that would protect all well-prepared, law-abiding officers from liability, but that does not go so far as to shield all officers regardless of egregious behavior.

House and Senate Joint Resolution Promising to Enact Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform

We, the People, would like to underscore that Law Enforcement Reform is but a single piece of an overall series of Criminal Justice Reforms that need to be made before We, as one Nation, can heal. And, as such, we will push forward until such comprehensive reform is accomplished.
We also want to iterate that, aside from multicultural display of solidarity we've experienced over the past few weeks, these protests do not bring us any type of joy.
We have been gassed. Beaten. Shot with rubber and real bullets. We have been dragged; punched; stomped and tased… We have cried—oh, have We cried. And We have bled. But despite this pain and trauma, please trust Us when We say that We will not only continue our protests until these #Demand10Now demands are met—but we will be back in the streets of our neighborhoods chanting “No Justice. No Peace.” if Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform is not passed within one year of the date of George Floyd’s death. Nobody wants this chaos, so please--for once--just do the right thing.