Cop who killed George Floyd arrested
Three years after “I Have a Dream” and the March on Washington, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King spoke with Mike Wallace of CBS News about change within the Civil Rights movement.
Destroying a Police Precinct Is a Reasonable Response to Unreasonable Killings
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has 2 words for Donald Trump: ‘It starts with F and ends with U’
The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan speaks with Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar about systemic racism, the militarized police response to protests in Minneapolis — which is in Omar’s district — and what real justice looks like for George Floyd’s family and black and brown communities across the country
Footage shows Louisville police shooting pepper rounds at news crew
In the footage below, broadcast live by an NBC affiliate and posted to Twitter by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a news crew moves into the street near a line of riot police. Protestors are not nearby in significant numbers and the police are not engaging them. A cop steps forward from the line and opens fire on the news crew with what appear to be pepper rounds.
Denver Post photographer struck twice by pepper balls during George Floyd protest Hyoung Chang, a 23-year veteran at The Denver Post, said an officer aimed at him
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White people forming a barrier between black protestors and police
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Tell this story. A group of black men ensure no harm comes to a police officer in Louisville riots.
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A group of black people protecting a cop who got separated from the others
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George Floyd with his baby daughter Gianna
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Emergency powers carry the risk of undermining rule of law
A municipal worker disinfecting surfaces in the capital Tunis, Tunisia. Photo credit:Lost in Tunis blog [Used with permission].
In response to COVID-19, governments around the world have declared states of emergency, allowing them to take exceptional measures to contain the pandemic.Liberal democracies from the United States, Canada to European countries, Malaysia and South Africa imposed emergency measures that restricted mobility under lockdowns. Likewise, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), authorities declared states of emergency and imposed exceptional measures such as curfews and home confinement.
Fires rage in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by local cop Derek Chauvin.
Though four officers were immediately fired, local prosecutor Mike Freeman said that there is ‘other evidence that does not support a criminal charge’ even as police refused to release unredacted footage of the incident. Video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he gasped for breath was taken by a bystander; Chauvin’s long history of violent conduct soon surfaced.
A 46-year old black man named George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis on Monday, May 25, 2020. A police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck, after vaguely accusing him of forgery and/or public intoxication. He pressed his knee down so hard — and kept it there — that it cut off the air to Floyd’s lungs, suffocating him. Three police officers stood around and watched as Floyd used his last breaths to cry for help; several bystanders filmed the scene, and tried to get the cops to stop, but to no avail.
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