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Mike Brandt, a local defense attorney, said prosecutors will likely seek out jurors who have favorable opinions on the Black Lives Matter movement or might have more outrage over Floyd’s death, while Chauvin’s attorneys would likely favor jurors who support the police. Unlike typical jury selection proceedings, this ...
... Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. State prosecutors will likely focus on the video showing Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for about nine minutes. But despite the now infamous footage, law Professor Ted Sampsell-Jones says a conviction isn't guaranteed ...
... of times we have to see people killed on videotape." Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci released a statement on behalf of the Floyd family saying the House was "responding to the mandate issued by thousands of Americans who took to the streets last summer to raise their ...
... died May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck while he was handcuffed and saying he couldn’t breathe. Floyd’s death sparked protests in Minneapolis and beyond and led to a nationwide reckoning on race. WATCH: Before George Floyd, Officer Derek Chauvin had ...
... is-- is really powerful to me because, in a sense, it is the connection point between these two fatal incidents--Philando Castile in 2016 and George Floyd in 2020--that, you know, were flashpoints in our national conversation about policing. Hari Sreenivasan: Jamiles Lartey, Abbie VanSickle, both from The Marshall ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An independent review of Philadelphia's police response to days of widespread protests after the May killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police found failures in planning that led to short staffing, emotional responses from officers and sometimes excessive uses of force. The 110-page report released Wednesday ...
“This summer happened because George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department and it wasn't an accident, it's because the system of policing we know now is not just racist, but it doesn't create safety for all,” said Oluchi Omeoga, a cofounder of Black Visions ...
... s unrest there are other worries, new COVID restrictions and, next spring, the trial of the four former police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd. For the "PBS NewsHour," this is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Minneapolis. Judy Woodruff: And Fred's reporting is a partnership with the ...
... the nation’s governors with deployment of the military to states, if leaders did not quell violent unrest. “My administration is fully committed that, for George and his family, justice will be served,” Trump said in remarks from the White House Rose Garden. “He will not have died in vain ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison. According to court documents, Derek Chauvin posted $1 million bond, and the Department of Corrections confirmed he was no longer in custody at the state ...
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