House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) suggested that he would be willing to support policing reform legislation even if it did not end qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that shields individual officers from lawsuits, the Washington Post reports.

Said Clyburn: “I will never sacrifice good on the altar of perfect. I just won’t do that.”

He added: “I know what the perfect bill will be. We have proposed that. I want to see good legislation. And I know that, sometimes, you have to compromise. … If we don’t get qualified immunity now, then we will come back and try to get it later. But I don’t want to see us throw out a good bill because we can’t get a perfect bill.”

A deputy campaign manager to former Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than six figures from her campaign, Politico reports.

“Democratic and Republican staff in Congress are drafting language for possible police-overhaul legislation that would limit the transfer of some military equipment to local departments, ban police use of chokeholds except in life-threatening situations and set federal standards for so-called no-knock warrants,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air,” the AP reports.

“Four months after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, FBI agents maintain a steady pace of arresting people accused of taking part, as one of the largest criminal investigations in American history keeps growing,” NBC News reports.

Said one law enforcement officer: “We’re not done rounding up the worst of the worst. We’re not slowing down.”

“More than 440 people have been charged with taking part in the Capitol siege, coming from all but six states — Mississippi, North and South Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wyoming. The largest number come from Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida, in that order.”

Daily Beast: Capitol rioters raises hell during off-the-rails court hearing.

“The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs — a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation,” the AP reports.

“Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have asked a judge to appoint a ‘special master’ — or independent review — for materials seized when the FBI executed search warrants on Rudy Giuliani’s home and office last week,” CNN reports.

“Calling it a step that would be appropriate to ensure attorney-client privilege is protected, prosecutors filed the request under seal last Thursday, the day after the searches were conducted.”

The same process was used for the Michael Cohen case.

“A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to casting a vote in the name of his deceased mother in an effort to reelect then-President Donald Trump,” CNN reports.

Federal agents seized at least 10 phones and computers from Rudy Giuliani during the dramatic Wednesday morning raid on his Manhattan apartment, Reuters reports.

“Manhattan federal prosecutors are seeking to examine Rudy Giuliani’s communications with an array of former Ukrainian officials, as investigators home in on whether the former Trump lawyer’s push to remove a U.S. diplomat in Kyiv violated foreign lobbying rules,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The search warrants executed by federal investigators on Wednesday at Mr. Giuliani’s New York City apartment and office sought evidence related to Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whom Mr. Giuliani pushed to oust in the spring of 2019, as well as communications with any U.S. government officials or employees regarding the former ambassador or her position.”

New charges have been added in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), WTRC reports.

Prosecutors have added charges against three of the six plotters saying they conspired “to use a weapon of mass destruction in relation to the discussion of blowing up a bridge to delay police response.”

Daily Beast: “On Wednesday, the apartment and office of former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani were raided by the feds. On Thursday, he picked up the phone and called Alan Dershowitz.”

Said Dershowitz: “I had spoken out a number of times against the raid, and Giuliani called me and asked me if I would share that view with his lawyers.”

“Dershowitz continued that he would be happy to talk to Giuliani’s lawyers about the Fourth Amendment issues surrounding the search of Giuliani’s apartment and the seizure of some of his electronic devices ‘as a sounding board,’ but he noted that he hadn’t heard from his lawyers yet.”

Giuliani claims that the search warrant at his home was illegal because electronic documents were on his iCloud account.

“Brendan Hunt, an enthusiastic Trump supporter who called for killing members of Congress days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, was found guilty Wednesday of making a death threat against elected officials,” the Washington Post reports.

“It took the jury in his case about three hours to reach a verdict, finding that comments Hunt made in a disturbing video posted online two days after the U.S. Capitol riot amounted to a genuine threat to murder elected officials in Washington.”

“I experienced a group of individuals who were trying to kill me to accomplish their goal.”

— D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, quoted by the Washington Post, on the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Meanwhile, the House Republican leadership is actively denying it happened.

DC Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, who was brutally assaulted while defending the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, told CNN that it’s been difficult to watch some elected officials and others “whitewash” the episode in its aftermath.

Said Fanone: “I experienced the most brutal, savage hand-to-hand combat of my entire life. Let alone my policing career, which spans almost two decades. It was nothing that I had ever thought would be a part of my law enforcement career, nor was I prepared to experience.”

A new CNN poll finds more than three-quarters of Americans say they are satisfied with the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last spring in Minneapolis.

“The widest gap in satisfaction with the verdict comes along partisan lines. While 97% of Democrats and 77% of independents express satisfaction with the outcome, just 53% of Republicans feel the same way. Divides by race, age or gender are less stark. Black adults are broadly satisfied with the outcome (95%), but broad majorities of Latinos (78%) and Whites (74%) are as well. Women (81%) express more satisfaction than men (73%), and there are no significant differences by age.”

Partisanship persists even in the face of clear facts.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce an investigation into the policing practices of the Louisville Police Department, ABC News reports.

A CBS News/YouGov poll finds 46% of Republican voters believe former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was wrongly convicted of murdering George Floyd.

Keep in mind that George Floyd’s murder was captured in its entirety in more than nine minutes of video.