... everybody going to be running around with a ruler?” Cellphone cameras have transformed policing with one of the biggest examples being the 2020 killing of George Floyd, but Kavanagh said a law like Arizona's wouldn't have made an impact since the video in that case was taken from ...
Back in this country, Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was sentenced to 21 years in prison on federal civil rights charges. Chauvin had pleaded guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights. He was already serving 22.5 years on state charges of murder ...
... in a pursuit that had started with an attempted traffic stop. The mayor called the shooting "heartbreaking" while asking for patience from the community. WATCH: George Floyd biography explores the systemic racism that contributed to his death It's not clear how many shots were fired by the eight officers ...
... mundane, everyday stories, like teaching my son how to drive. That's something everyone goes through. But then how do you teach a multiracial boy how to drive the summer after George Floyd is killed, and then having to also deal with teaching him, how do you deal with police?
... in a radio debate last month. “We need the police that we need.”In the summer of 2020, following mass protests over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Bowser publicly feuded with then-President Donald Trump after racial justice protesters were forcibly cleared from an area near ...
... a number based on the population of Minneapolis. Interim City Attorney Peter Ginder said the city has about 300 fewer officers than it did before George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020. The city's former police chief had attributed the departures to retirements and officers who filed ...
... about Juneteenth meaning. John Yang: Geoff, Juneteenth dates back more than a century. It`s gaining traction in recent years with the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and it`s come to mean different things to different people. Two perspectives now from Athenia Rodney, founder of Juneteenth ...
... that the Justice Department has been unjustly tougher on Capitol riot defendants compared with people arrested at protests against police brutality and racial injustice after George Floyd’s 2020 murder by a Minneapolis police officer. McFadden also has criticized prosecutors for seeking jail time for some nonviolent Capitol riot defendants ...
... because we are going to beef it up.’” Lyoya’s killing by an officer came after numerous others in recent years involving Black people, including George Floyd, whose killing in Minneapolis sparked a national reckoning on race;Daunte Wright, who was shot during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis; Andre ...
... ways, Chesa Boudin was never well-liked by law enforcement here. But I think there was a series of missteps he made and also just the reality of the past two years, the pandemic, the George Floyd protests, the sort of strange crime rate changes we saw over the pandemic.
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