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Houston police chief rips McConnell for siding with NRA over abuse victims
By Oliver Willis -December 9, 2019
Republicans claim the House impeachment inquiry is preventing them from passing gun laws.
On Monday, Houston police chief Art Acevedo called out Senate Majority Mitch McConnell and other top Republican senators for using impeachment hearings as an excuse for blocking gun safety legislation.
McConnell has refused to allow a Senate vote on the Violence Against Women Act, which was passed by the Democratic-led House in April. The bill has a provision making it more difficult for known domestic abusers to obtain guns.
"We all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women Act is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriend," said Acevedo.
Acevedo made his statement after the weekend shooting and killing of Sgt. Christopher Brewster, a member of the Houston Police Department, by a man accused of assaulting his girlfriend.
"And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend," noted Acevedo. "So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the NRA."
He added, "I don't want to see their little smug faces about how much they care about law enforcement when I'm burying a sergeant because they don't want to piss off the NRA."
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Acevedo on Monday noted that despite the supposed hold-up in legislation due to the impeachment inquiry, the Senate had still managed to take care of other business, including confirming Donald Trump's judicial picks.
"Don't tell me ... it's about the impeachment," Acevedo said Monday, "because you brag every day ... about getting judges confirmed. You brag about every piece of legislation you care about."
He added, "Start caring about cops, children, women, and everyday gun violence."
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