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Family members, friends and community activists continue calls for reforms as some in George Floyd Square said they see signs of progress.
Five years ago millions rallied for police reform after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Trump is now exiting court-ordered settlements.
George Floyd moved to Minnesota for a fresh start — an opportunity to better himself and to be a better father.
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Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., who is now a mental health advocate, told Welker he believes the United States “is falling down on its own responsibility as stewards to our children’s future” because of lack of action on the issue.
The MAGA posts follow recent calls for Donald Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin—the former Minneapolis cop who was convicted in Floyd’s murder—by right-wing figures including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican and others contend Floyd died of a drug overdose, disputing the findings of an autopsy that ruled his death a homicide.
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Advocates in Minneapolis have been working to preserve hundreds of pieces of 2020 protest art to ensure that George Floyd and the movement he sparked are not forgotten.
Five years after a police officer murdered George Floyd, my colleagues and I attended events at the Minneapolis intersection where he was killed and in his hometown, Houston. They were both a tribute and a rallying call.
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Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo says he wishes he had moved faster to change the culture of his department before the murder of George Floyd, which happened five years ago Sunday.