... justice for my son. I will never stop speaking up for him, never. John Yang: It's been more than 2.5 years since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which led to calls for sweeping police reform and more accountability. What's been accomplished in that time?
... Judge Jerry Blackwell, who was a star of the prosecution team that the attorney general assembled to convict former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of Floyd's murder. "In prosecuting the people who killed George Floyd, we showed that no one is above the law, and no one is beneath ...
... at a time when many nations' brutal colonial histories have received critical scrutiny because of the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The prime minister's address was a response to ...
... wouldn't otherwise have but for sports. Colin Kaepernick's kneeling, to say nothing of the racial tensions laid bare in the U.S. by George Floyd's killing in 2020, upended the old “shut up and play” cliché, and presented many athletes with an opening to use sports to ...
WATCH: How the guilty verdict in the Kim Potter trial could influence police reform "Whether it be Rodney King, or whether it be George Floyd or any of the number of incidents we've seen over the last 30 years: How police deal with force is at the heart of ...
... people. That initiative launched just as the foundation opened up about the tens of millions in donations it took in after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a case that helped spark racial justice protests across the U.S. and around the world. Earlier this ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — has removed its last public Confederate statue. Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the statue ...
... police officers involved in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced today to 3.5 years in state prison. J. Alexander Kueng helped to restrain Floyd during a fatal encounter in may 2020. Kueng is already serving federal prison time for violating Floyd's civil rights. Inflation at the wholesale ...
... a return to the Jim Crow era. The lawsuit filed by Ben Crump, a Florida-based civil rights attorney known for representing family members of George Floyd and other Black people killed by police, stems from congressional approval of $5 billion in debt relief for thousands of farmers of color ...
... stakes. A standout cut is called "Hold the Line." He played it for his siblings and parents before the album's release. Bartees Strange: After George Floyd died, I remember watching the news and seeing his daughter, Gianna, talking to the press about what had happened. And everyone was like ...
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