• Harris and Walz kick off battleground state tour on first full day as Democratic ticket

    Harris and Walz kick off battleground state tour on first full day as Democratic ticket

    Aug 07, 2024 10:55 PM EST

    ... Kamala Harris was helping to bail the rioters and looters out of jail.Amna Nawaz: He was referring to protests following the police killing of George Floyd, some of which turned violent. As Minnesota's governor, Walz called in the National Guard after several days. Some say he was slow ...

  • Milwaukee hotel employees charged with being party to felony murder in D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death

    Milwaukee hotel employees charged with being party to felony murder in D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death

    Aug 07, 2024 06:14 PM EST

    ... party to felony murder in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death. Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for about nine minutes. Floyd ...

  • A look at Walz's record and how he could bolster Democratic support in the Midwest

    A look at Walz's record and how he could bolster Democratic support in the Midwest

    Aug 06, 2024 10:55 PM EST

    ... here are very critical of his time during the pandemic in particular. We had a lot of lockdowns. Of course, we had the riots following George Floyd's murder and were very critical of him being slow to send the National Guard out. Also, during the pandemic, we had the ...

  • Looking back at Tim Walz’s record and past statements

    Looking back at Tim Walz’s record and past statements

    Aug 06, 2024 09:35 PM EST

    ... Readers can email us suggestions to truthometer@politifact.com. Republicans have already begun to question Walz’s handling of the rioting following the murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. Walz clashed with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over how to handle the unrest, but he sent the Minnesota ...

  • 5 things to know about Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' VP pick

    5 things to know about Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' VP pick

    Aug 06, 2024 03:16 PM EST

    ... agency heads. Republicans also remain critical of Walz over what they see as his slow response to sometimes violent unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Things got easier for Walz in his second term, after he defeated Republican Scott Jensen, a ...

  • Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

    Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

    Aug 06, 2024 01:14 PM EST

    ... its authority and was ill-prepared to respond. Republicans still criticize Walz for his response to the sometimes violent unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, which included the torching of a police station. During a May fundraiser in St. Paul, Trump ...

  • WATCH: Trump speaks at National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago

    WATCH: Trump speaks at National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago

    Jul 31, 2024 03:18 PM EST

    He compared the 2021 insurrection to the protests in Minneapolis and other cities in 2020 following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and to more recent protests at the Capitol last week by demonstrators opposed to the war in Gaza. Trump falsely claiming that no one was arrested ...

  • WATCH: Trump speaks at rally in Minnesota with Vance in effort to swing blue-leaning state

    WATCH: Trump speaks at rally in Minnesota with Vance in effort to swing blue-leaning state

    Jul 27, 2024 06:55 PM EST

    ... borders is completely and totally disqualifying for her to be president.” Trump called out Harris for a 2020 post she made after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police. The post had encouraged people to help protesters by donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which ...

  • Bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued federal prisons signed into law

    Bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued federal prisons signed into law

    Jul 25, 2024 06:20 PM EST

    ... a fellow prisoner last November at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. The assailant said he targeted Chauvin because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd, federal prosecutors said. Disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed in July 2023 at a federal penitentiary in Florida, and “Unabomber” Ted ...

  • More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

    More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

    Jul 24, 2024 10:25 PM EST

    ... t look left and right. You just have to keep forward. Fred de Sam Lazaro: Maxie-Cole notes her son died just two days after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis. She says living in a society rife with systemic and structural racism is like having a headache ...