• Activists demand reform and justice after deputy shoots and kills Sonya Massey in her home

    Activists demand reform and justice after deputy shoots and kills Sonya Massey in her home

    Jul 23, 2024 10:35 PM EST

    ... do not." And in her own statement, Vice President Kamala Harris decried this as a senseless death and reiterated calls for Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which she co-authored. The law would, among other things, limit the use of force, ban choke holds, and ...

  • Body cam video shows Illinois deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey

    Body cam video shows Illinois deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey

    Jul 22, 2024 09:54 PM EST

    ... is representing Massey’s family, told the crowd at her funeral in Springfield on Friday that the video would reveal a crime as startling as the 1955 lynching of Chicago teenager Emmitt Till in Mississippi, the Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd.

  • Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC

    Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC

    Jul 17, 2024 05:40 PM EST

    ... those who can’t afford it, paid Tillman’s $2,000 bail in April 2022. In June 2020, during the protests against the murder of George Floyd, Harris tweeted in support of the Minnesota Freedom Fund "to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota." The organization ...

  • 'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold death

    'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold death

    Jul 17, 2024 02:43 PM EST

    ... Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9, 2014. Six years later, George Floyd was recorded uttering the exact same words as he begged for air while a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd ...

  • Police refer felony murder charges in death of Milwaukee man held down by security guards

    Police refer felony murder charges in death of Milwaukee man held down by security guards

    Jul 12, 2024 10:45 PM EST

    Amna Nawaz: To that point, Mr. Crump, I think one of the reasons this video has resonated so deeply is because of how hauntingly similar it is to George Floyd, who I know -- his family, I know you represented four years ago. And I just wonder how it strikes you ...

  • Death of Dvontaye Mitchell, Black man held down by Milwaukee hotel guards, draws national outcry

    Death of Dvontaye Mitchell, Black man held down by Milwaukee hotel guards, draws national outcry

    Jul 10, 2024 03:24 PM EST

    MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled deliver a eulogy for a Black man who died last month after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards in Milwaukee, his office said Tuesday. The death of Dvontaye Mitchell has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a ...

  • Prepare for CNN's Biden-Trump debate with these key facts

    Prepare for CNN's Biden-Trump debate with these key facts

    Jun 27, 2024 06:53 PM EST

    ... but this was largely beyond Trump’s control; experts say the spike stemmed from a confluence of the coronavirus pandemic and the societal upheaval after George Floyd’s murder that year. Trump has urged voters not to trust data showing falling violent crime because he says the analyses don’t ...

  • Phoenix police routinely used excessive force and violated civil rights, DOJ says

    Phoenix police routinely used excessive force and violated civil rights, DOJ says

    Jun 14, 2024 10:45 PM EST

    ... these findings, tell us more about what spurred this investigation in the first place. So we saw a similar probe in Minneapolis after police killed George Floyd, in Louisville after police killed Breonna Taylor. What happened in Phoenix? Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic: In Phoenix, rather than one large event ...

  • Parents and educators weigh in on school safety as more states arm teachers on campus

    Parents and educators weigh in on school safety as more states arm teachers on campus

    Jun 13, 2024 10:30 PM EST

    ... We're asking -- in many school communities today, it's a very contentious issue of having police in school, period, especially after the murder of George Floyd.I think there are very conflicting messages. I think the argument for having an armed presence on campus is the trained, commissioned certified ...

  • How racial disparities in financial education affect America’s wealth gap

    How racial disparities in financial education affect America’s wealth gap

    Jun 02, 2024 09:35 PM EST

    ... gap? And does it actually want to? Robert Smith: One of the things that I did coming out of the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd was formed the Southern Communities Initiative, which was a consortium of companies to address some of these, you know, these issues, specifically for ...