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Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday signed a bill into law banning police chokeholds, except in life or death situations, on the same day the Assembly sent him a measure that would penalize local governments that attempt to defund their police departments.
The Assembly also passed a bill delayed last week that sets a statewide use of force policy for police.
Evers, in his message signing the bipartisan chokehold ban and three other policing bills, called on the GOP-controlled Legislature to pass more meaningful reforms. Other proposals he signed will require the reporting of incidents when police used force, the posting of use-of-force policies online and will create a community policing grant program.