Police reform bill would ban no-knock warrants
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No-knock warrants allow police to raid a home without knocking at the front door or ringing a doorbell. Had the officers been armed with a no-knock warrant, they would have simply bashed in the door without knocking. Democratic lawmakers want to end no-knock warrants after Louisville police mistakenly shot and killed 27-year-old Breonna Taylor in her home. Jefferson said another controversy surrounding no-knock warrants is that crooks have been known to pretend to be cops executing a no-knock warrant to pull off home invasions. In addition to banning no-knock warrants, Congressional Democrats have also proposed banning chokeholds, like the ones used on George Floyd and Eric Garner, and banning religious and racial profiling.