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... has a plan to defund the police." Mostly False. The Trump campaign has pointed to statements by Harris in 2020 — not in 2024. Shortly after George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, Harris was asked about the "defund the police" movement. She called for "reimagining" public safety. She ...
... going to be prosecuted?” Trump asked. A 2021 Associated Press review of documents in more than 300 federal cases stemming from the protests sparked by George Floyd’s death found that more than 120 defendants across the U.S. pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial of federal crimes including ...
... year-old Eyad Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem's Old City in 2020. The case had drawn comparisons to the police killing of George Floyd in the United States. In 2017, Israeli soldier Elor Azaria was convicted for manslaughter and served nine months after he killed a wounded ...
... Experts said it’s wrong to blame Trump solely for rising violent crime in 2020. A confluence of the coronavirus pandemic and societal upheaval after George Floyd’s 2020 murder fueled the spike. Both campaigns mislead about the other’s plans for Social Security Older Americans are one of the ...
... that there was no case — because I did nothing wrong,” Trump said. Patrick Yoes, the FOP's national president, said Trump had tamped down the “defund the police” movement and supported law enforcement in the summer of 2020 during nationwide protests against police brutality after the murder of George Floyd.
... investment in mental health resources. And, for a time, some districts, including Chicago and Minneapolis, worked toward removing police from schools. Those efforts gained new momentum in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota by a white police officer. Schools take a harder line on discipline after pandemic
I think the hope was, especially with the policies that came into place after the murder of George Floyd, actually, if we just all really put all our efforts into trying to diversify our work forces, we will see more movement than we have. We have seen some movement. The ...
... been hearing from speakers this week. We rated this claim half-true. So violent crime did spike in 2020. That coincided with the pandemic, with George Floyd protests, but it was a very notable spike for violent crime. But Pete Buttigieg was being broad here. He said crime. And if ...
Rod Adams, New Justice Project: There are a lot of folks who are open to it, people don't feel like they have a political home. Laura Barron-Lopez: Rod Adams runs a social justice nonprofit in Minneapolis that he started following the murder of George Floyd. Today, his group ...
... of “March, March,” a song about social justice — amid the nationwide George Floyd protests and a surge in Black Lives Matter sentiment. In 2003 during the run-up to the Iraq War, Maines said on stage in London that they were ashamed that President George W. Bush was from Texas.
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