5-year anniversary of George Floyd's death
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George Floyd died five years ago. To mark the anniversary of the 46-year-old's murder, Rev Al Sharpton spoke at a graveside service in Houston. He said that Floyd represented all of those ‘who are defenseless against people who thought they could put their knee on our neck’.
On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder charges.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the United States and the international community for remaining silent after Russia unleashed what Ukrainian officials described as the largest aerial assault on the country since the war began.
Five years after George Floyd's murder by Derek Chauvin, the world remembers the tragic event that sparked global protests against systemic racism. Ch
The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.
Conservative media outlets are rewriting the story; some of their claims are false or lacking context. A new narrative is taking root in the story of George Floyd and the former police officer convicted of murdering him.
Every year on the anniversary of George Floyd ’s death, his sister LaTonya goes to his grave and sings REO Speedwagon’s “I’ll Keep on Loving You.” “I lost my best friend,” she says. “I love him so much.”
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Judge Peter Cahill, 66, revealed in a wide-ranging interview that the ‘idiots’ on the Minneapolis City Council made conducting a fair trial for Derek Chauvin difficult, the Minneapolis