The decision to remove the giant yellow mural,installed during Donald Trump’s first term,shows how the president is leaving his mark on Washington DC.
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 former police officer had already been convicted of murdering George Floyd. Now he has acknowledged he heard bystanders urging him to check Floyd’s pulse but did nothing.
His Name is George Floyd is a story about the fallacy of the American Dream and how a white supremacist ideology was a snarling hound at Floyd’s heels.
Three former Minneapolis police officers have been found guilty of depriving George Floyd of his rights by failing to give aid to the handcuffed Black man pinned beneath a colleague’s knee.
The federal charges included two counts alleging that Chauvin deprived Floyd of his rights by kneeling on his neck as he was handcuffed and not resisting,and then failing to provide medical care.
This belated sequel to the 1992 cult classic Candyman has a much bigger target in mind.
Nobody was talking about critical race theory two years ago,but in the wake of the George Floyd protests,it has become the latest moral panic in schools.
A Minnesota judge has sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22½ years in prison for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest last year.
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”.