Five years ago today, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Video of the event sent shockwaves around the world and triggered an American reckoning with racial justice and police use of force. For our ongoing series “Race Matters,” John Yang speaks with Selwyn Jones, Floyd’s uncle and co-founder of Justice 929, about his family’s...
... self-care fair,” and culminate with a worship service, gospel music concert and candlelight vigil on Sunday. WATCH: Minneapolis reflects on changes 5 years after George Floyd’s murder The remembrances come at a fraught moment for activists, who had hoped the worldwide protests that followed Floyd's murder on ...
Fred de Sam Lazaro: Arradondo says he's also surprised at the growing questions around the circumstances of George Floyd's death. Many in right-wing circles now cast doubt about the cause of death, pointing to his drug use, even though testimony at Derek Chauvin's trial ruled out ...
So it's a mixed bag. It depends on who you ask. Stephanie Sy: Is there a sense that having a consent decree can prevent the type of incident that we saw with George Floyd and with others, that a consent decree can be effective at addressing, for example, systemic ...
... she has “no faith that the Trump administration will be a serious partner" in implementing the agreement. WATCH: How policing has changed 4 years after George Floyd’s murder “Having a federal consent decree signed and in place is valuable to police reform efforts, but we need to be sober ...
... but we weren't ready for something on the scale of the moral outrage as what we saw in the aftermath of the lynching of George Floyd. We just weren't ready for it. And so we had great ability for acute empathy, and for in-the-moment decisiveness and ...
... incident? Or will there always be scar tissue? Jon Collins: So I think there's going to be remnants of 2020. And what happened in George Floyd in Minneapolis' DNA forever. You know, it's changed the nature of the city. It's changed how the city thought about itself ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments of more than 20 Austin police officers over tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd's killing said Monday he was dropping most of the cases and would ask the Justice Department to investigate instead. The announcement ...
... of his murder conviction. Separately, Chauvin is making a longshot bid to overturn his federal guilty plea, claiming new evidence shows he didn’t cause Floyd’s death. Floyd, who was Black, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pressed a knee on his neck for 9½ ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn't cause Floyd's death. In a motion filed in federal court Monday, Chauvin said he never ...
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