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... Matter Plaza today. The giant yellow letters were installed in June of 2020 after days of protests there over police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's murder. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the renaming of the intersection as an act of defiance during President Trump ...
... time. Ali Rogin: Why has it become so politicized? Shaun Harper: Let's rewind almost five years ago when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. And we all saw it play out via Darnella Frazier's video footage. You know, that forced a global reckoning with structural and ...
... Armstrong said they were “stunned” that Target, which increased its commitment to building a more diverse workforce in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis in 2020, backed away from its support of racial equity. “We thought that they would hold the line ...
... in June 2020... Question: Is that your Bible? Nick Schifrin: ... when Trump appeared in Lafayette Square near the White House after protesters demanding justice for George Floyd were cleared by police. Gen. Mark Milley: I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created ...
... on a host of issues. He pushed back on the president's interest in using the military domestically to quell protesters after the death of George Floyd, and he was at the center of a controversy in 2021 when he made independent calls to his Chinese counterpart. Trump said those ...
... established to help Black employees build meaningful careers, improve the experience of Black shoppers and to promote Black-owned businesses following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Target, which operates nearly 2,000 stores nationwide and employs more than 400,000 people, said it already had planned to ...
... Internet. It's tweets, it's memes, it's viral messages, viral images, and all about living while Black. If you think back to the George Floyd case, what really got that going was the video image of the nine minutes of the policeman with his knee on George Floyd ...
... Trump's team. The city of Minneapolis this afternoon approved a police reform deal with the federal government that stems from the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Today's agreement, known as a consent decree, requires long-term supervision of the city's police force by a federal court. It ...
... serve at the pleasure of the president. Brown, a combat pilot and just the second Black officer to serve as chairman, spoke out after the police killing of George Floyd, a touchstone moment in the Black Lives Matter movement, about the bias he faced in his own life and career.
... violations could result in fines paid by the city. Other police departments have faced federal investigations in recent years, including Minneapolis' after the killing of George Floyd, and the police force in Louisville, Kentucky, following the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. Mattise reported from Nashville. Associated Press reporter Kristin ...
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