• Texas governor seeks to pardon man found guilty of murdering Black Lives Matter protester

    Texas governor seeks to pardon man found guilty of murdering Black Lives Matter protester

    Apr 11, 2023 10:35 PM EST

    ... Laura Barrón-López: And, last night, Tucker Carlson on FOX had Kyle Rittenhouse on his program to defend Perry. Rittenhouse fatally shot two protesters during George Floyd protests in Wisconsin in 2020. But he was acquitted. It's a difference with Perry. Rittenhouse, though, has become a folk hero on ...

  • News Wrap: Biden tours tornado damage in Mississippi

    News Wrap: Biden tours tornado damage in Mississippi

    Mar 31, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    ... against Norfolk Southern railroad over a February train derailment in Ohio and Minneapolis agreed to restructure its policing nearly three years after an officer killed George Floyd. ... Amna Nawaz: In the day's other headlines: President Biden spent much of the afternoon in a Mississippi Delta town leveled by a ...

  • Reparations could cost California more than $800 billion, economists estimate

    Reparations could cost California more than $800 billion, economists estimate

    Mar 29, 2023 02:37 PM EST

    ... adopting a K-12 Black studies curriculum. Gov. Newsom signed legislation in 2020 creating the reparations task force after national protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. While federal initiatives have stalled, cities, counties and other institutions have stepped in. An ...

  • 4 former police officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death barred from policing

    4 former police officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death barred from policing

    Mar 24, 2023 05:18 PM EST

    ... fired. A seventh police employee who was fired has not been publicly named.During Nichols' funeral, Vice President Kamala Harris urged lawmakers to approve the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a broad package of reforms that includes a national registry for police officers disciplined for misconduct, a ban on ...

  • Teen suspect of Denver high school shooting found dead, coroner's office says

    Teen suspect of Denver high school shooting found dead, coroner's office says

    Mar 23, 2023 01:52 PM EST

    ... shot while sitting in a car near East High School. In June 2020, amid a summer of protests over racial injustice following the murder of George Floyd, Denver Public Schools became one of the districts around the US that decided to phase out its use of police officers in school ...

  • Student shoots 2 administrators at Denver high school, police say

    Student shoots 2 administrators at Denver high school, police say

    Mar 23, 2023 12:16 AM EST

    ... campus at the time of Wednesday's shooting, Thomas said. In June 2020, amid a summer of protests over racial injustice following the murder of George Floyd, Denver Public Schools became one of the districts around the US that decided to phase out its use of police officers in school ...

  • Irvo Otieno's mother says video shows deputies, workers 'smothered the life out of him'

    Irvo Otieno's mother says video shows deputies, workers 'smothered the life out of him'

    Mar 21, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    ... and leg irons, and he's face down, and they all pile on him, you see people put knees on his neck three years after George Floyd, you have to scratch your head and say, why in the world would you use that kind of excessive force for not one ...

  • Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleads guilty in tax case

    Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleads guilty in tax case

    Mar 17, 2023 10:18 PM EST

    WATCH: George Floyd biography explores the systemic racism that contributed to his death With unpaid taxes, interest and fees, the Chauvins, who have since divorced, owe $37,868 to the state, according to court documents. The tax investigation began in June 2020, after the Minnesota Department of Revenue received information ...

  • 7 deputies face murder charges in death of Black Virginian Irvo Otieno

    7 deputies face murder charges in death of Black Virginian Irvo Otieno

    Mar 17, 2023 03:57 PM EST

    ... under scrutiny. It follows the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this year and comes nearly three years after the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Ben Crump, who represented Floyd's family and is now working with Otieno's, quickly drew a comparison ...

  • What are the next steps for Black reparations in San Francisco?

    What are the next steps for Black reparations in San Francisco?

    Mar 16, 2023 10:47 PM EST

    ... new, but the federal government's promise of granting 40 acres and a mule to newly freed slaves was never realized. It wasn't until George Floyd, a Black man, was killed in police custody in 2020 that reparations movements began spreading in earnest across the country. The state of ...