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... have been indicted. In May, the top leaders in Harris County, where Houston is located, unanimously approved a resolution to support the pardon request for Floyd. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg urged Abbott to grant the posthumous pardon. "We lament the loss of former Houstonian George Floyd and hope ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the federal charges against them. A federal grand jury indicted Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao in May for allegedly depriving Floyd of his rights while acting ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd's life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against racial injustice said her uncle has died in a crash involving a Minneapolis police car. Darnella Frazier said in a Facebook post that Leneal Lamont ...
... the particular cruelty shown to George Floyd." Cahill said his ruling wasn't based on "emotion or sympathy," but he acknowledged the widespread pain that Floyd's death has caused for the community. "I acknowledge the pain not only of those in this courtroom, but the Floyd family who are ...
... George Floyd to the jury, recalling their childhood in a poor part of Houston and his brother's knack for making banana mayonnaise sandwiches. Philonise Floyd testified last year before Congress in support of a federal overhaul of policing just a day after his older brother's funeral. Terrence Floyd ...
... sentenced before Chauvin ranged from from six years, nine months, to life behind bars, with the median being 15 years. With Chauvin's sentencing, the Floyd family and Black America faced something of a rarity: In the small number of instances in which officers accused of brutality or other misconduct ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Crews removed concrete barriers as well as artwork, flowers and other memorial items on Thursday from a Minneapolis intersection that has become a sprawling memorial to George Floyd, whose death last year at the hands of police galvanized the racial justice movement. City crews began the work about ...
On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Judy Woodruff and PBS NewsHour reporters will focus on what has changed, and what hasn’t, since the outrage and protests of last summer, focusing on Minneapolis as well as several other communities around the country that have also seen ...
Yamiche Alcindor: Well, President Biden spoke to the Floyd family about this, and he said he was not happy with the idea that the deadline that he set, which is today, the year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, that there wasn't a policing legislation that he could sign ...
Before speaking with President Joe Biden at the White House today, George Floyd's family met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Rep. Karen Bass. Bass is the House Democrats' lead negotiator on a police reform bill named after Floyd. The House passed it in March and it has been in the hands of the...
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