Mississippi lawmakers voted this week to give more power to a state police agency that has come under criticism for shooting four people in the city of Jackson since last summer.
on use of force and car chases that have not been updated since 2006. The Capitol Police has said little to explain the shootings, which remain under investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. The department has said it would update its policies governing force and chases soon.
The other bill that passed this week focused on the new temporary court to handle crimes committed in the Capitol Complex Improvement District. The bill would expand the district to the north and the south in July 2024, and the court would end operations in 2027. The bill does not concentrate on the Capitol Police but says the agency’s officers must be given body cameras.
“This police force has no accountability to the city of Jackson,” Rep. Edward Blackmon Jr., a Democrat from Madison County, just north of Jackson, said of the Capitol Police on Friday. “This doesn’t exist anywhere else in the state of Mississippi. It is about race because we are the only race that is subjected to this kind of process.”
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