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News Articles: George Floyd

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, flanked by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, left, and Chief Brian O'Hara of the Minneapolis Police Department, speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

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Minneapolis agrees to overhaul police training and policies following Floyd murder

The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul the city's police training and use-of-force policies in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

January 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
In this June 25, 2021, file image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis.

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  • National

Ex-officer convicted in George Floyd's killing is moved to new prison

Derek Chauvin was moved to a prison in Texas months after he was stabbed in a different facility. Meanwhile, another former Minneapolis officer, Thomas Lane, was released from prison in Colorado.

August 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Taniyah Pilgrim, left, stands with Messiah Young, right, as he speaks during a news conference on the campus of Morehouse College, June 1, 2020, in Atlanta. On Monday, July 1, 2024, the Atlanta City Council approved the payment of a settlement of $2 million to the two college students who were shocked with Tasers and pulled from a car while they were stuck in downtown traffic caused by protests over George Floyd's killing.

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  • News

Atlanta City Council approves settlement of $2M for students pulled from car during 2020 protests

The Atlanta City Council has approved the payment of a settlement of $2 million to two college students who were shocked with Tasers and pulled from a car while they were stuck in downtown traffic caused by protests over George Floyd's killing.

July 02, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Members of the Sycamore Creek Church congregation bow their heads and pray over Justice League of Greater Lansing leaders, Willye Bryan and Prince Solace, as they hold a large check.

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  • Race

A Michigan grassroots effort is raising reparations, while the government lags

A grassroots effort in Michigan is raising reparations, while the government lags

May 01, 2024
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  • Sophia Saliby
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Actor-singer Sammy Davis Jr. is at bottom right.

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  • News

At March on Washington's 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights

Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. On Saturday, as civil rights leaders and their allies mark 60 years since the original March on Washington, they hope to recapture the spark that forever changed America.

August 23, 2023
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  • Associated Press
An demonstrator holds a portrait of George Floyd in March 2021 outside the Hennepin County Government in Minneapolis, where the trial of former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd's killing was under way.

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  • National

DOJ report finds systemic patterns of abuse by the Minneapolis Police Department

The Justice Department, city and police will begin negotiations to set the terms of a consent decree, which will bring federal oversight to police

June 16, 2023
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  • Martin Kaste
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who directed the prosecution of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, is releasing a book about his experience.

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  • Author Interviews

The AG who prosecuted George Floyd's killers has ideas for how to end police violence

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison kept notes as lead prosecutor in the state's case against Derek Chauvin. He's sharing them in a new book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence.

May 24, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Jan Johnson
Tyre Nichols

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Congress under pressure to pass police reform act; Southern Democrats push for DNC

Tuesday on Political Rewind: More voices are calling for Congress to pass a bill that would address police misconduct. The bill passed the U.S. House in 2021 but was never taken up by the Senate. Plus, Southern Democrats urge President Biden and the Democratic National Committee to hold their convention in Atlanta.

 

January 31, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis in 2021. An attorney for Chauvin asked an appeals court on Wednesday to throw out his convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of his right to a fair trial.

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  • National

Derek Chauvin's lawyer asks a Minnesota appeals court to toss his murder convictions

Chauvin is currently serving concurrent state and federal sentences in an Arizona prison. The three-person Court of Appeals says it will issue its opinion within 90 days.

January 18, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A new audit of autopsies conducted under David Fowler's tenue "will determine whether independent experts agree or disagree with the [the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's] determination of cause and manner of death, whether such experts believe the OCME's determinations were based on adequate investigations," the panel's said.

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  • Law

Maryland officials order the reinvestigation of about 100 deaths in police custody

The review follows an audit of police-involved deaths under the tenure of former Chief Medical Officer David Fowler, who testified that George Floyd's death was caused by heart disease and drug use.

October 22, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

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  • National

A former Minneapolis officer is sentenced to 3 years for aiding George Floyd's death

Former police officer Thomas Lane, who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced on Wednesday.

September 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A person reacts in Minneapolis on April 20, 2021, after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.

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  • National

Texas denies a posthumous pardon for George Floyd over a drug charge

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles declined a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer.

September 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A crowd gathers under a new sign designating a city roadway as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. City officials approved the honor for Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in February 2020 after being chased by three white men in pickup trucks who spotted him running in their neighborhood. All three men were later convicted of murder and federal hate crimes.

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  • Race

Town honors Ahmaud Arbery after end of hate crimes case

Ahmaud Arbery is being honored by his hometown after stiff sentences for hate crimes against the white men who chased and killed him. Dozens of people joined Arbery's family on a sweltering street corner Tuesday as Brunswick city officials unveiled signs designating a 2.7-mile roadway as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street.

August 10, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Greg McMichael looks at the gallery during the testimony of his son, Travis McMichael’s in the trial of he, his son and William "Roddie" Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.

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  • News

Ahmaud Arbery pursuer seeks leniency in hate crimes sentence

The man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is asking a federal judge to show leniency when he's sentenced for a federal hate crime conviction. Greg McMichael's defense attorney says his client should be spared a life sentence, though he has already been sentenced to life without parole on a separate murder conviction.

August 03, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Former Minneapolis Police Officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday to three years for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

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  • National

Two former police officers are sentenced for violating George Floyd's civil rights

J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years and Tou Thao got 3 1/2 years — penalties that a judge said reflected their level of culpability in a case that sparked worldwide protests.

July 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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