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No longer demanding cuts to police budgets or straining to show solidarity with protesters, Democrats are taking a far more ...
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis. The event sparked nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racist policing. City leaders were promising “ ...
The New Commonwealth Fund, born out of a sense of urgency to end systemic racism in 2020, is now weighing how to stay ...
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked an extreme reaction from the left; now the American body politic is ...
Five years ago, the fight for racial justice reached a fever pitch when George Floyd was killed by a White police officer, Derek Chauvin. The world watched in horror as Chauvin placed his knee on ...
The intersection where a crowd of concerned onlookers urged Chauvin and other officers to listen to the cries of the dying Floyd quickly became George Floyd Square.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police reform and civil-rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and decry the Trump administration ...
Nine minutes and 29 seconds. That’s the amount of time officer Derek Chauvin’s knee was on George Floyd’s neck. Three other police officers watched as George, who was Black, said ‘I can’t breathe’ ...
In 2021, the Hennepin County District Court found Derek Chauvin, an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, guilty of murdering George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on May 25, 2020 ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Five years after the death of George Floyd, and the racial rioting that caused almost $500 million in damages, the wounds have not healed. During a week in the Twin Cities ...
More from Sarah Smith: What a 10-minute call with George Floyd's family reveals about the meaning of May 25 The movement that ignited in Minneapolis after his murder raced across the country.
A solitary rose lays at the base of a mural of George Floyd on the third anniversary of his death John Autey / MediaNews Group / St. Paul Pioneer Press via Getty EXCLUSIVE: The BBC and Dartmouth ...