Floyd’s killing in May 2020 and the shocking video that captured it sparked one of the biggest civil rights uprisings in generations but for many the fight for change continues.
The race of the five officers charged in the Tyre Nichols killing has prompted a complex grappling among black activists about institutional racism in policing.
Video footage shows one police officer kneeling on the man’s neck for several minutes.
Darnella Frazier ushered her niece into a store then went back out to the footpath to begin recording because “it wasn’t right. He was suffering. He was in pain”.
Underlying the emotional day,however,was the inability of Congress to meet the president’s deadline to advance police reform legislation by the anniversary of Floyd’s death.
There’s broad agreement that anything other than a murder conviction for Derek Chauvin will result in an enormous eruption of rage across the States.
An official report ordered in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests concluded that Britain did not have a systemic race problem. This did not go down well.
“It’s going to be a long journey to justice. This is just one step on the journey to justice,” said the family’s lawyer Ben Crump.
The death of Floyd,46,triggered protests and rioting across the US after mobile phone footage emerged showing Chauvin,a white police officer,kneeling on his neck.
The acting PM has labelled the Black Lives Matter movement a “protest over racial riots” in a new statement claiming a parallel with the storming of the US Congress.
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