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LGBTQ activists appointed to new D.C. Police Reform Commission

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D.C. City Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) has appointed four prominent LGBTQ rights advocates to a newly formed District of Columbia Police Reform Commission that is charged with reviewing current policing practices and making recommendations for reforming policing in the nation’s capital.

The 20-member commission was created under the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Act of 2020 that the Council passed earlier this year as part of the nationwide movement to reexamine police practices following the murder by a police officer in Minneapolis of George Floyd.

The LGBTQ members appointed by Mendelson include Kent Boese, an Adams Morgan Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and current president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic

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