Frederica Freyberg:

This week, U.S. Senate Republicans and House Democrats could not find common ground on competing police reform bills. Democrats charge Republican policy proposals don’t go far enough. It looks likely the two sides will need to caucus to reconcile differences. Last week, we heard from Democrat Representative Mark Pocan. This week, Zac Schultz caught up with Republican Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman for his reaction.

Glenn Grothman:

Well, the bill Nancy Pelosi is going to put on the floor is a dangerous bill. When you take away the qualified immunity for police officers, you are putting them at risk big time. I mean you wouldn’t be shutting down the police departments, but you could make them very ineffective. You look at the huge increase in murders here in Milwaukee, the increase in murders in Chicago. The last thing we want to do right now is hamstring the police. And I’m saying that from somebody who did try to make it easier to fire the police around 2008. And there are no question it should be easier to remove a bad police officer. But to punish all the police officers is going too far.