SENATORS THROW UNANIMOUS SUPPORT BEHIND CHAMBERS' PRIORITY BILL ON RACIAL PROFILING

LINCOLN - It isn't often an Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers bill gets such an overwhelming response.

It happened Wednesday when the Legislature advanced Chambers' priority bill (LB924), requiring racial profiling anti-bias training for law enforcement, on a 43-0 vote.

The veteran lawmaker said he could have prioritized that bill (LB44), which was introduced last year and failed to advance on a 25-17 vote, for symbolism and symmetry to leave the way he came into the Legislature in 1971, fighting to end the death penalty.

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