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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis.A video of the incident depicting Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted widespread outrage leading to local, national, and international protests and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing.
The George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2020 (LETIA) is a subtitle of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 which aims to reduce the prevalence of police brutality by fostering connections between police departments and communities. The bill also calls for national policing standards and accreditations. [1] The bill died in ...
The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to rein in abuses and hold them accountable. [13]
The Texas Rangers, established in 1835, represent another early form of policing aimed at maintaining the interests of settlers and suppressing Indigenous populations.
After the University of Texas called in police — some descending on campus on horseback, others clad in riot gear — to disperse a student-organized pro-Palestine protest April 24, arresting 57 ...
A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin police officers for tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd's killing said Monday he was ...
Police and Texas Army National Guard at a protest in Austin on May 31, 2020. Several dozen protesters demonstrated in front of the Austin Police Department headquarters the night of May 29–30, with nine ultimately arrested. [10] On May 30, thousands of protesters again gathered outside police headquarters.
This map displays cities with George Floyd protests with more than 100 participants. The map data is stored in Wikimedia Commons to work around software issues with the amount of data when stored locally. There is a master map data file containing all protests and jurisdiction-specific map files containing protests only within a region.