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At the daily Downing Street COVID-19 press conference on 3 June, Boris Johnson stated that he was "appalled and sickened" by the murder of George Floyd. Johnson said that people had the democratic right to protest, but he "urge[d] people to protest peacefully, and in accordance with the rules on social distancing" before concluding that racism ...
The George Floyd protests, a series of protests and unrest which began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 26, 2020, in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin. An estimated 93%–96.3% of demonstrations were peaceful and nondestructive, involving no injuries or no property damage.
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd might have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [2]
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Darnella Frazier (born March 23, 2003) is an American woman who recorded the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, posting her video on Facebook and Instagram.The video undermined the initial account of Floyd's death by the Minneapolis Police Department, [1] and served as evidence leading to criminal charges against four police officers.
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, prompted a national reckoning on race and policing, sparking a series of reforms in police departments across the country and forcing businesses ...
Stevante Clark felt a glimmer of hope when racial justice protests swept the globe in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd. His own brother, Stephon Clark, was killed by Sacramento police ...
For Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, the initial calls for change after his brother’s death were touching. “The fact that he was stolen from us. We still can’t get over that,” he said ...