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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday condemned the continued police violence against Black Americans nearly three years after the murder of George Floyd. In an interview with the Guardian, Omar sai… ...
*Replay Event* No Going Back: The Killing of George Floyd: A panel discussion addressing a long history of oppression, brutality, and white supremacy and the laws and reforms that are needed to drive ...
Editor's note: George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, touching off a year of racial reckoning in the United States. This is one of several essays from ...
As Donald Trump tries to limit efforts to combat police brutality, the ACLU’s Seven States Safety Campaign shows how communities are stepping up to demand justice. Five years ago, the world watched ...
The protests against police brutality and racism saw violence in many cities. Protests have broken out across the United States in the days since the death of George Floyd, a black man who was ...
His nephew had just been murdered two days earlier when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. George Floyd's killing at the hands of sworn ...
In Colombia, where police brutality has notoriously been a problem, George Floyd's death added fuel to the fire, sparking #BlackLivesMatter protests and inspiring citizens to film confrontations ...
The George Floyd police brutality protests are different – bigger, fiercer, more sustained – than demonstrations prior. America rises up regularly. It’s in the DNA of a country founded on ...
Bridgett Floyd, Floyd’s sister and founder of the George Floyd Memorial Foundation, said the 22-and-a-half year prison sentence signals that police brutality is “finally being taken seriously.” ...
As we reflect on George Floyd’s tragic murder, and the police brutality against protesters in its aftermath, we must remember that this untenable violence can be avoided. The Trump administration’s ...