US President Joe Biden on Tuesday will host George Floyd’s family at the White House to mark the first anniversary of his death. American-African Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer. 

Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, said on Friday that the President would mark the anniversary of Floyd’s death, but offered no further details on his plans.

Floyd, 46, died on May 25 after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes, while Floyd repeatedly said that he couldn’t breathe. He was claustrophobic and struggled with police when they tried to put him down on the ground.

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In the wake of Floyd’s death, demonstrations and scattered violence broke out in Minneapolis and sparked months of nationwide protests focused on systemic racism. Last month, Chauvin was convicted on multiple charges stemming from Floyd’s death. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris telephoned Floyd’s family later and said, “We’re all so relieved.”

There are talks focused on the police reform bill named after Floyd, ‘The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act’- has been stalled on Capitol Hill. Previously, Biden has set the death anniversary of Floyd as the deadline for the bill’s passage and left much of the negotiations up to the lawmakers, but there’s been little movement regarding the bill on legislation in the last weeks. 

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On Friday, Psaki said that the White House is “in close touch” with the negotiators and “they still feel there’s progress being made,” but they’ve acknowledged it’s “unlikely” they’ll pass by Biden’s deadline, reported The Indian Express.

The George Floyd justice in Policing Act would ban chokeholds, carotid holds, and no-knock warrants, and seeks to end qualified immunity for law enforcement against civil lawsuits, as well as create national standards for policing in a bid to bolster accountability.

The bill was passed in the House in March but faces a much tougher road as some senate republicans have expressed concerns that scrapping qualified immunity would open officers and departments up to a rash of lawsuits.