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Jim Jordan Says It’s Not His Job to Stop ‘Evil’ Like Cops Killing Tyre Nichols

“I don't know that there's any law that can stop that evil that we saw,” Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said in response to Tyre Nichols’ death.

vice.com

The top Republican in the House overseeing criminal justice issues said that he doesn’t think Congress can—and doesn’t even really want to try—to resolve the persistent problems with American policing in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the far-right Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he’s skeptical that “any law, any training, any reform” at the federal level is going to prevent another event like the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police.

“Preventing people from comitting murders isn’t our business

We need to focus on really important things like trying to control what books people are allowed to read and whether trans people are allowed to exist in public”