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Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Karen Bass and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer join fellow Democrats from the House and Senate kneel in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds to honor George Floyd.
Sens. Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer and Kamala Harris, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Karen Bass and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer join fellow Democrats from the House and Senate to kneel in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds to honor George Floyd.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Sen. Tim Scott on Wednesday mocked Democrats for their kente cloth stunt after Sen. Dick Durbin described his police reform proposals as a “token” approach.

“Y’all still wearing those kente cloths over there @SenatorDurbin?,” Scott, a Republican of South Carolina, wrote on Twitter.

Durbin’s comments came just after Scott, the only black Republican senator, introduced the Republicans’ police reform proposals following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

Speaking on the Senate floor, Durbin noted that the time is right for reforms following the mass protests nationwide over Floyd’s death.

“We cannot waste this historic moment, this singular opportunity,” Durbin said. “Let’s not do something that is a token, half-hearted approach. Let’s focus instead on making a change that will make a difference in the future of America.”

Scott was alluding to Democrats — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who knelt earlier this month in the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall to note the eight minutes and 46 seconds that former Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee pressed into Floyd’s neck.

The roughly two dozen Democrats wore colorful African kente cloths draped around their necks.

They were criticized at the time for wearing the African garb, but Rep. Karen Bass, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the lawmakers wore the kente cloth in an act of solidarity.

Durbin was not among the kneeling group.

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