Whereas, in recent years, there have been significant peaceful assemblies protesting against police brutality throughout the world, including in the United States; Whereas police brutality may include human rights violations such as the use of excessive force, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, torture, and the use of lethal rounds and the unnecessary use of less-lethal crowd control weapons by law enforcement, in response to peaceful assemblies; Whereas police brutality may occur prior to an arrest, during crowd control operations, during an arrest, and while an individual is in custody; Whereas the Small Arms Survey identified that between 2007–2012, 19,000 people worldwide were killed by police annually; Whereas a 2017 United Nations Development Program report found that more than 70 percent of individuals who had joined violent extremist groups across Africa self-reported that government action , including police brutality, was the determining factor in their decision to join such groups; Whereas the United States is the largest arms exporter in the world, including as the top provider to 13 out of 19 countries in the Middle East; Whereas the United States is the largest developer and exporter of less-lethal weapons, including tear gas, in the world; Whereas the United States, especially under the auspices of the wars on drugs and global terrorism, has in recent decades dramatically increased its influence on the tactics, equipment, and purpose of policing around the world; Whereas, during that same period and under those same auspices, domestic police forces at the State, local, and Federal level have become increasingly militarized in both equipment and tactics; Whereas several United States embassies in Africa released statements in the aftermath of the May 25, 2020, police killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, explicitly recognizing the foreign policy dimension of domestic police violence