The bill is expected to be introduced “within the next few days,” DeWine said, and will include more training for officers in areas including de-escalation and use of force, a statewide use of force incident database, an officer discipline database and a requirement for an independent investigation of officer-involved critical incidents.
He added that law enforcement groups, civil rights leaders and Republican state Rep. Phil Plummer, the former Montgomery County sheriff, worked with DeWine’s office on the legislative proposal which “will increase accountability and transparency in law enforcement.”
“George Floyd’s death laid bare some of our deepest divisions in our country — our goal, my goal, all of our goal should be to work every single day to bring us together as a people, to bring us together as a country,” the governor said, adding that “there is a lot for us to learn from this great tragedy.”
The officer who fired the shots is off street duty pending an investigation, and Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther has said state investigators will determine “if the officer involved was wrong, and if he was we will hold him accountable.”
CNN’s Amir Vera, Ray Sanchez, Artemis Moshtaghian, Eric Levenson, Aaron Cooper, Christina Carrega and Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.
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