• AP report: More FBI leaders forced out, including ex-director who resisted turning over Jan. 6 agents' names

    AP report: More FBI leaders forced out, including ex-director who resisted turning over Jan. 6 agents' names

    Aug 07, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... April, for instance, the bureau reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. Numerous special agents in charge of field offices have been told to retire, resign or accept ...

  • Americans’ views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially in 4 years, poll shows

    Americans’ views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially in 4 years, poll shows

    Jul 31, 2025 05:33 PM EST

    ... thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they're intended ...

  • How misinformation spread after Minnesota lawmaker's murder

    How misinformation spread after Minnesota lawmaker's murder

    Jun 18, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... of the disinformation narratives are going to be. For example, around the L.A. protests, we saw reusing old footage,people using footage from the George Floyd protests in 2020. We saw people using footage from the Arma 3 video game, which is a war game. So they used footage ...

  • Capehart and Ponnuru on the politics of Israel's attack and Iran's response

    Capehart and Ponnuru on the politics of Israel's attack and Iran's response

    Jun 13, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... political conflict because -- I interviewed Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison in the run-up to the anniversary, the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. And he brought up on his own the rumor that the president was going to pardon Derek Chauvin. And the attorney general said ...

  • What U.S. law says about Trump's deployment of active duty troops to Los Angeles

    What U.S. law says about Trump's deployment of active duty troops to Los Angeles

    Jun 12, 2025 08:15 PM EST

    ... not the first time Trump has summoned the National Guard to squash protests. In response to looting and violence following the May 2020 death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, Trump called on governors to deploy the National Guard to "dominate the streets." Thousands of National Guard troops from ...

  • Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

    Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

    Jun 12, 2025 03:51 PM EST

    ... a police car engulfed in flames. But the video dates to 2020, when people rallied against police brutality after the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody. Another video, shared June 8, showed a row of military vehicles driving down a street. Some ...

  • May 25, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    May 25, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    May 25, 2025 11:43 PM EST

    Sunday on PBS News Weekend, five years after the murder of George Floyd, his family’s fight for racial justice and police reform goes on. The environmental impact of data centers at the heart of the AI industry. Tensions in the South China Sea mount as Chinese and Philippine vessels ...

  • WATCH: Trump delivers commencement speech to West Point graduating class of 2025

    WATCH: Trump delivers commencement speech to West Point graduating class of 2025

    May 24, 2025 05:03 PM EST

    ... who fought a war over slavery during his remarks, which came as the nation was reckoning with its history on race after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump also paid tribute to the military academy’s history and its famed graduates, including Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

  • How the DOJ under Trump is targeting his perceived political adversaries

    How the DOJ under Trump is targeting his perceived political adversaries

    May 21, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    William Brangham: Right, another extraordinary case in the department. Thirdly, the Department of Justice is also going to drop these police reform agreements -- they're known as consent decrees -- in Minneapolis and Louisville. These are consent decrees that were signed after investigations into the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna ...

  • Justice Department moves to cancel Minneapolis and Louisville police reform settlements

    Justice Department moves to cancel Minneapolis and Louisville police reform settlements

    May 21, 2025 04:09 PM EST

    The Justice Department announced its decision just before the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. Then-officer Derek Chauvin used his knee on May 25, 2020, to pin the Black man to the pavement for 9 1/2 minutes in a case that sparked protests around the ...