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... year, assaults and burglaries are rising. Republicans have blamed Walz for a sluggish National Guard mobilization they say enabled the sometimes violent protests that followed George Floyd's killing in 2020, including arson that destroyed a police precinct. Walz has dismissed “second-guessing” of his moves during the pandemic, which ...
... he’s Black,” Wood said. Arbery’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Like Floyd's case, Arbery's slaying was captured in a graphic cellphone video that sparked ...
... times. The spring and summer of 2020 became a time of reckoning over how police treat Black communities. Protesters shouted Taylor's name along with that of George Floyd, a Black man who died from suffocation three months after Taylor when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck.
Judy Woodruff: As that hearing continued, news came of a lengthy indictment in the Fourth of July parade shooting outside Chicago. The man accused of killing seven people and wounding more than 30 will face 117 felony counts. New federal prison sentences have been handed down in George Floyd's ...
... a similar bill. A federal judge has sentenced a former Minneapolis police officer, Thomas Lane, to two-and-a-half years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights. Lane, who is awaiting sentencing on a state manslaughter charge, held Floyd's legs while another officer fatally knelt on ...
... 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?
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