ACTION ALERT: End chokeholds and neck restraint
We need you to take action to help ban chokeholds and neck restraints.
Senate Bill 5094 does not address our demands to curb excessive force. It does the exact opposite by giving police officers additional TRAINING and options to use force in restraining suspects through neck restraints and chokeholds. This bill would be a step backward for Washington.
YOUR VOICES ARE NEEDED HERE, NOW. We need you to take action to help ban chokeholds and neck restraints. We need you to express your mandate here, and now.
STOP SB 5094 from passing.
Take Action Now
Email Rep. Padden, sponsor of this bill and ranking member of the Law and Justice Committee, and tell him that SB 5094 is a life-ending policy that can not be passed into law.
We cannot allow police the power to decide who lives or dies based on their opinion. This bill would equip officers with additional training to choke and use neck restraints against human beings.
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Link above not working for you? Email mike.padden@leg.wa.gov. Here is a sample message you can use:
Dear Rep. Padden,
“I can’t breathe,” the dying words from Eric Garner and George Floyd. Killed by police due to neck restraints.
Chokeholds and neck restraints should be banned as unnecessary and life ending tactics.
We can not allow police the power to employ this life ending tool. No matter how skillfully. Police officers do not need additional training on the appropriate methodology to choke human beings. Black Lives. They need a mandate to stop. Too many have been lost and harmed with this option on the table. That needs to end now.
SB 5094 is a life ending policy that CAN NOT be passed into law. I am calling on you to protect Black Lives by doing everything in your power to prevent this bill from becoming a law.
In solidarity with Black Lives across Washington,
[Your Name]