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... of ketamine. The third officer and two paramedics are awaiting trial. The case initially did not receive widespread attention, but protests over the killing of George Floyd the following year sparked outrage over McClain’s death. His pleading words captured on body camera footage, “I’m an introvert and I ...
... 702 databases for information related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and the 2020 protests following the police killing of George Floyd. FBI officials say significant safeguards have since been imposed. In a recommendation Thursday that critics say would impose a significant hurdle and mark ...
... see racist or racially insensitive depictions of their race in the news either often or sometimes, according to the Pew Research Center. Three years after George Floyd's killing triggered a racial reckoning in the news media, Pew took its first broad-based look at Black attitudes toward the media ...
... brought for two years after McClain died, by which time a national reckoning had begun over racial injustice in American policing following the murder of George Floyd by officers in Minneapolis. Police body camera captured McClain pleading with the officers, saying “I’m an introvert” and “I’m just different ...
Lewis: Right, but it's like, his hands are almost tied to a certain point. Like, he has so many -- he can only do so much as a president. Michael: The George Floyd bill, that still hasn't passed. That needs to happen. Sarah Longwell: What about abortion? Is that ...
... shooting helped fuel racial justice protests that swept the nation in 2020. In Minneapolis, former police officers were convicted of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose death sparked those protests. Former officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years after pinning Floyd to the pavement for more than ...
... violent movement that prosecutors trace to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests. The protests erupted in the wake of the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the June 2020 police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. Those events preceded the public announcement of the proposed training ...
... law enforcement blame on the two-fold morale hit of 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic and criticism of police that boiled over with the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and ...
... economic divide based on color lines. Geoff Bennett: In the past few years, we have seen demonstrations against police brutality after the police killing of George Floyd and others. We have seen acts of civil disobedience in support of gun reform. Mr. Bunch, you have said that protest is the ...
... or fall short of sending legislation to the president's desk. That’s also been true of police reform legislation proposed after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and during unprecedented racial justice demonstrations nationwide. The Floyd legislation was before Congress when Sharpton convened a march at ...
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