This week marks two years since those protests began, a movement that spread from Minneapolis

across the country.

It was sparked by George Floyd's murder at the hands of a white police officer, and two

years to the day after that brutal killing came this moment.

This executive order can deliver the most significant police reform in decades.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order meant to change how police use force.

The most direct impact will be on federal law enforcement, like Border Patrol and the

FBI.

There are about 100,000 federal officers nationwide compared to about 700,000 officers at the

state and local level.

Under this new order, federal officers will be told to use force, quote, only, when no

reasonably effective, safe, and feasible alternative appears to exist.

And deadly force, that is authorized only when necessary.

Some local departments already do this, but the hope is those that haven't adopted

these standards will.

It's a measure of what we can do together to heal the very soul of this nation.

To address profound fear and trauma, exhaustion, the particularly black Americans have experienced

for generations, and a channel that private plane and public outrage, and do a rare mark

of progress for years to come.

The executive order also has a variety of reform ideas that have been recommended for years,

including a new database of police misconduct reports.

The goal there is to prevent so-called wandering officers that get fired from one agency

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