By Amy Forliti and Steve Karnowski, AP Prosecutors are charging a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time will level charges against three other officers at the scene, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Widely seen bystander video showing Floyd’s May 25 death has … Read more
By Stefanie Dazio, AP Murder. Brutality. Reprehensible. Indefensible. Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a handcuffed black man who cried for help as an officer knelt on his neck, pinning him to the pavement for at least eight minutes. But some civil rights advocates … Read more
Protests, rioting and looting intensified last night in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd earlier this week. Police officers abandoned the third district station as it was taken over by rioters and burned. From the Associated Press: Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station Thursday that the department was forced to abandon as three … Read more
Rodney King, Michael Brown, and now George Floyd. Three very different police-involved incidents, all of which resulted in riots and looting. Last night, parts of the city of Minneapolis were on fire and one man, apparently a looter, was shot to death, possibly by a store owner defending his property. The details are still to … Read more
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