notice specifically of Federal Bureau of Investigation 
statistics demonstrating that ‘‘among single-bias 
hate crime incidents in the United States, 59.2 per-
cent of victims were targeted due to racial, ethnic, 
or ancestral bias, and among those victims, 52.2 
percent were victims of crimes motivated by the of-
fenders’ anti-Black or anti-African American bias’’. 
(20) On September 14, 2017, President Donald 
J. Trump signed into law Senate Joint Resolution 
49 (Public Law 115–58; 131 Stat. 1149), wherein 
Congress ‘‘condemn[ed] the racist violence and do-
mestic terrorist attack that took place between Au-
gust 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, 
Virginia’’ and ‘‘urg[ed] the President and his admin-
istration to speak out against hate groups that 
espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semi-
tism, and White supremacy; and use all resources 
available to the President and the President’s Cabi-
net to address the growing prevalence of those hate 
groups in the United States’’. 
(21) Senate Joint Resolution 49 (Public Law 
115–58; 131 Stat. 1149) specifically took notice of 
‘‘hundreds of torch-bearing White nationalists, 
White supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis [who] 
chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slo-
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gans and violently engaged with counter-demonstra-
tors on and around the grounds of the University of 
Virginia in Charlottesville’’ and that these groups 
‘‘reportedly are organizing similar events in other 
cities in the United States and communities every-
where are concerned about the growing and open 
display of hate and violence being perpetrated by 
those groups’’. 
(22) Lynching was a pernicious and pervasive 
tool that was used to interfere with multiple aspects 
of life—including the exercise of Federally protected 
rights, as enumerated in section 245 of title 18, 
United States Code, housing rights, as enumerated 
in section 901 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3631), and the free exercise of religion, as 
enumerated in section 247 of title 18, United States 
Code. Interference with these rights was often effec-
tuated by multiple offenders and groups, rather than 
isolated individuals. Therefore, prohibiting conspir-
acies to violate each of these rights recognizes the 
history of lynching in the United States and serves 
to prohibit its use in the future. 
SEC. 403. LYNCHING. 
(a) OFFENSE.—Chapter 13 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘§ 250. Lynching 
‘‘Whoever conspires with another person to violate 
section 245, 247, or 249 of this title or section 901 of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3631) shall be 
punished in the same manner as a completed violation of 
such section, except that if the maximum term of impris-
onment for such completed violation is less than 10 years, 
the person may be imprisoned for not more than 10 
years.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF SECTIONS AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections for chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
249 the following: 
‘‘250. Lynching.’’. 
TITLE 
V—ALTERNATIVES 
TO 
THE USE OF FORCE, DE-ESCA-
LATION, 
BEHAVIORAL 
HEALTH CRISES AND DUTY 
TO INTERVENE TRAINING 
SEC. 501. TRAINING ON ALTERNATIVES TO USE OF FORCE, 
DE-ESCALATION, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 
CRISES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 901(a) of title I of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10251(a)) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (27), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (28), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(29) the term ‘de-escalation’ means taking ac-
tion or communicating verbally or non-verbally dur-
ing a potential force encounter in an attempt to sta-
bilize the situation and reduce the immediacy of the 
threat so that more time, options, and resources can 
be called upon to resolve the situation without the 
use of force or with a reduction in the force nec-
essary; and 
‘‘(30) the term ‘behavioral health crisis’ means 
a situation in which the behavior of a person puts 
the person at risk of hurting himself or herself or 
others or prevents the person from being able to 
care for himself or herself or function effectively in 
the community, including a situation in which a per-
son is under the influence of a drug or alcohol, is 
suicidal, or experiences symptoms of a mental ill-
ness.’’. 
(b) COPS PROGRAM.—Section 1701 of title I of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
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