What is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and is it likely to pass?

RowVaughn Wells, flanked by Al Sharpton, left, and her husband, Rodney Wells, at the funeral service for her son, Tyre Nichols, in Memphis, Tennessee. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

As RowVaughn Wells addressed the hundreds of mourners gathered to grieve the loss of her son, Tyre Nichols, she delivered an impassioned plea to Congress: pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

“We need to get that bill passed,” Wells said at Nichols’s funeral on Wednesday. “Because if we don’t, the next child that dies – that blood is going to be on their hands.”