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That the House of Representatives— (1) condemns police brutality wherever in the world it occurs; (2) stands with peaceful protesters around the world in their calls for justice and accountability for police brutality; (3) recognizes that police brutality disproportionately targets already vulnerable populations, including racial, ethnic, religious minorities, women, migrants, and the LGBTQIA+ community; (4) recognizes that impunity for police brutality undermines the rule of law, erodes public confidence in state institutions and degrades social cohesion; (5) calls on the United States Government to— (A) take immediate and significant steps to eliminate police brutality and impunity for police brutality in the United States; (B) prohibit the sales of arms, ammunition, and less-lethal policing equipment to countries with demonstrated patterns of human rights violations by security forces or impunity for human rights violations by security forces; (C) prohibit other forms of security assistance, including police training, to countries with demonstrated patterns of human rights violations by security forces or impunity for human rights violations by security forces; (D) use its voice, vote, and influence in international institutions to work toward the elimination of police brutality and ending impunity for police brutality around the world; (E) end the use of militarized equipment and tactics in policing both at home and abroad; and (F) reallocate funding in both the United States and abroad to peacebuilding, job training, counseling and mental health programming, and violence-preventing programming; and (6) calls on businesses based in the United States that sell lethal and less-lethal policing equipment to adopt strict protocols prohibiting the sale of such articles to countries with demonstrated patterns of police brutality or impunity for police brutality.