Biden to sign anti-lynching law a century after it was first introduced
President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill making lynching a federal hate crime, finally cementing a legislative triumph that’s eluded generations of lawmakers, civil rights groups and seven presidents — and one, he lamented, that’s still needed in a country where racial violence persists.
conspiracies to commit crimes in which hate is the motivating factor and which result in death or serious bodily injury as federal hate crimes punishable by up to 30 years in prison., an unarmed Black motorist, by a Minnesota police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Captured on cellphone video, the killing evoked memories of Till’s murder and countless more recent instances of police brutality against Black Americans. It quickly prompted calls for police reform.
“The same racial hatred that drove the mob to hang a noose brought that mob carrying torches out of the fields of Charlottesville,” Biden said, referencing the 2017 white supremacist gathering in a Virginia college town that turned violent when a marcher ran over a counterprotester with his car. Sens. Cory Booker and Tim Scott introduced the Senate version, which was passed unanimously by a voice vote earlier this month. Rep. Bobby Rush was the lead sponsor of the House version, which in February passed in a 422-3 vote. Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Chip Roy of Texas were the only lawmakers to vote against the bill.
Scott, who did not attend the bill-signing, tweeted that the new law “undoubtedly marks progress for our nation.”
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