Kamala Harris supports the Black Lives Matter movement.

Kamala Harris was one of the lawmakers to unveil Justice in Policing Act of 2020, a police reform proposal drafted after the death of George Floyd.

Kamala Harris was one of the lawmakers to unveil Justice in Policing Act of 2020, a police reform proposal drafted after the death of George Floyd.In an opinion piece published in Cosmopolitan on June 4, 2020, when protests against the killing of George Floyd were at its peak, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris elaborated on the reasons led her to join the movement. She wrote, “This past weekend, I joined thousands of protestors in Washington, D.C., as we marched through the streets to demand justice for George Floyd. As I stood among the sea of people gathered outside the White House, I was overcome with emotion. Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix.”

Harris also spoke about the reforms she had been working on to curb systemic racism in the country. Politico reported on Aug. 28, 2020, that Harris was the one who had arranged a meeting between the Movement for Black Lives and the Congressional Black Caucus to present the BREATHE Act, a four-part proposal, named after the phrase uttered by Black men Eric Garner and George Floyd while in police chokeholds. The act aims to redirect federal funds away from police, prisons, and other parts of the criminal justice system and into underserved communities of color. She was also one of the lawmakers who unveiled the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 in June. The bill forces federal police to use body and dashboard cameras, ban chokeholds, eliminate unannounced police raids known as “no-knock warrants”, make it easier to hold police liable for civil rights violations, and calls for federal funds to be withheld from local police forces who do not make similar reforms, the BBC reported.