• Tyre Nichols’ death puts spotlight back on excessive police use of force

    Tyre Nichols’ death puts spotlight back on excessive police use of force

    Jan 28, 2023 10:45 PM EST

    ... community can actually, over time, lead to these situations. This is exactly what we see not only in this case with in Eric Garner, with George Floyd, in many other cases where it was small infractions, not for murder, not for rape, not for aggravated assault, for small infractions that ...

  • Marcus and Abernathy on the deadly police beating in Memphis

    Marcus and Abernathy on the deadly police beating in Memphis

    Jan 27, 2023 11:30 PM EST

    ... very healthy. What happened before that fact is obviously really disturbing and, in some ways, more disturbing, on a certain level, when it's Black officers involved. It's horrifying when a white officer shoots and kills or is responsible for the death of a Black man like George Floyd.

  • WATCH: White House says Biden, Nichols family are calling for peaceful protests

    WATCH: White House says Biden, Nichols family are calling for peaceful protests

    Jan 27, 2023 06:07 PM EST

    ... added that the moment underscored the need for Congress to pass legislation addressing policing reform. Biden unsuccessfully pushed for a sweeping legislation, known as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, earlier in his term. "Today, we all must recommit ourselves to the critical work that must be done to ...

  • Memphis authorities release video footage in Tyre Nichols' death

    Memphis authorities release video footage in Tyre Nichols' death

    Jan 27, 2023 03:25 PM EST

    ... spoke with Nichols' mother earlier in the day and told her that he was going to be “making a case” to Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act “to get this under control.” The legislation, which has been stalled, is meant to tackle police misconduct and excessive ...

  • Colorado police officers, paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain case

    Colorado police officers, paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain case

    Jan 21, 2023 01:24 AM EST

    ... to open a criminal investigation into the case. There had been renewed national interest in McClain's death as protesters rallied over the killing of George Floyd in 2020. In 2021, the city of Aurora agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by McClain’s parents for $15 million. McClain, a ...

  • Derek Chauvin's lawyer says ex-cop didn't get a fair trial, asks court to void verdict

    Derek Chauvin's lawyer says ex-cop didn't get a fair trial, asks court to void verdict

    Jan 18, 2023 10:36 PM EST

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An attorney for Derek Chauvin asked an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer's convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial. Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin ...

  • Why calls for reform have not reduced the number of people killed by police

    Why calls for reform have not reduced the number of people killed by police

    Jan 12, 2023 11:25 PM EST

    ... 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?

  • Tim Walz sworn in for 2nd term as Minnesota governor, pledges boosts to education

    Tim Walz sworn in for 2nd term as Minnesota governor, pledges boosts to education

    Jan 02, 2023 10:25 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Dutch Prime Minister apologizes for role Netherlands played in slave trade

    Dutch Prime Minister apologizes for role Netherlands played in slave trade

    Dec 19, 2022 07:47 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Analysis: Crypto companies' ties to sports raise ethical questions

    Analysis: Crypto companies' ties to sports raise ethical questions

    Dec 18, 2022 12:16 AM EST

    ... 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 ...