Tyre Nichols: Tim Scott blames Dems for failed police reform meant to ensure ‘only the best wearing the badge'

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Monday called out Democrats like Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for opposing the JUSTICE Act and other federal level police reform over the past eight years.

"Yesterday on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ Sen. Durbin asked Sen. Booker and I to come back to the table and start talking about policing in America. Well, I never left the table," Scott said. "But it was Sen. Durbin who filibustered my JUSTICE Act. It was Sen. Durbin who called the effort to make de-escalation training more available a token piece of legislation. It was indeed the senator from Illinois who said as aspects of my JUSTICE Act talked about the importance of the duty to intervene, a token piece of legislation."  Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

That legislation "had more resources for more training because we want only the best wearing the badge in every location, in every municipality, in every county, in every state in this great nation," Scott told the Senate President. "But politics too often gets in the way of doing what every American knows is common sense. But here we find ourselves again, Mr. President, having the same conversation with no action having happened so far."