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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… ...
Three years after George Floyd’s death, reckoning with police violence remains in limbo. Proponents of federal actions — such as banning chokeholds and changing the so-called qualified ...
*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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Conversation) – On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis. From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The ...
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 ...
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.” ...