WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters in the nation’s capital knelt and sang “Amazing Grace” on Wednesday, the sixth night of protests over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. “We are not going anywhere,” the protesters chanted. As the protesters sang and chanted, law enforcement officers in riot gear stood ...
... son of George Floyd paused to remember him at the makeshift memorial where Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. Watch the event in the player above. Floyd's family has demanded the arrest of all four police officers involved in his death. The Floyd family on Wednesday visited the makeshift shrine ...
... he was good -- and this is the proof," Washington said, pointing to their daughter. "He was a good man." Her remarks came one week after Floyd's death on May 25. The family of George Floyd commissioned an independent autopsy, which found on June 1 that he had died due ...
... of an abuse of power. Borrell told reporters that “like the people of the United States, we are shocked and appalled by the death of George Floyd.” He underlined that Europeans “support the right to peaceful protest, and also we condemn violence and racism of any kind, and for sure ...
Yamiche Alcindor: When you see the video of George Floyd, do you think, that could be me? Jaden Olley: Always. I was 8 years old and my mind when Trayvon Martin -- when the Trayvon Martin case happened. And ever since then, I understood that it could be me. Yamiche Alcindor ...
... I kind of have to be six steps ahead,” he said. Michael Fingerlin, 50, who is white and lives six blocks from the place where Floyd was killed, teared up as he spoke about trying to watch the footage of Floyd’s death. “It shouldn’t be a privilege to ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd's family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes and ignored his cries of distress, the family's attorneys said Monday. The ...
Managing the lawful and peaceful protests that are continuing in Minnesota’s Twin Cities while preparing for the possibility of more violence is the job of state and local authorities. St. Paul, Minnesota Mayor Melvin Carter joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss what his city's next steps are in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
HOUSTON (AP) — The mayor of Houston said Saturday that the body of George Floyd, whose death after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck during an arrest has sparked protests across the U.S, will be returning to the city where he grew up. Floyd was a ...
Recent images of unrest in cities like Minneapolis resemble demonstrations that occurred during the Obama administration, when protesters took to the streets demanding that law enforcement face justice for their violent treatment of black Americans. Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time, is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. He weighs in on the...
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