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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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