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An inquiry has been launched into the death of a man who died in police custody and has been described by his family as “Scotland’s George Floyd”. Sheku Bayoh, 31, died in May 2015 after he was restrained by officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife. His family say that race played a part […]
Police officers in America continue to kill people at an alarming rate, according to a data analysis that has raised concerns about the Biden administration’s push to expand police investments amid growing concerns about crime. Law enforcement in the US have killed 249 people this year as of 24 March, averaging about three deaths per […]
Sitting down with the families of George Floyd and Rodney King, one easily could have focused on the media-driven narratives and videos that rocked the world and reignited the national conversation on police brutality and racism—one nearly two years ago and the other more than 30 years ago. Yet for Trinity students Caleb Prescott ’22 […]
Feb 17 (Reuters) – The family of a Black teenager who was pinned to the ground and arrested by New Jersey police following a fight with a white teenager at a local mall has retained the attorney in the George Floyd wrongful death case, Benjamin Crump, to represent them. “This is another example of the […]
[Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of three officers over George Floyd’s death. Follow live updates.] ST. PAUL, Minn. — In the prosecution’s telling, three Minneapolis police officers did little more than callously watch as their colleague, Derek Chauvin, slowly killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck . . .
Read Story Transcript Journalist Jelani Cobb says the guilty verdicts in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial shouldn’t be taken as definitive evidence of progress being made to address racial crimes in the United States. “This case and the George Floyd case are really like asterisks,” the New Yorker staff writer told The Current’
A Houston public defender is waiting on the Texas governor to posthumously pardon George Floyd of a now questionable 2004 drug conviction. New evidence has emerged regarding the arresting officer in this case, casting so much doubt that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in an unprecedented move, has unanimously decided to back the […]
Pounded with rising concerns of systemic racism and a push to boost racial equity, corporate America has faced unprecedented pressure since 2020 to boost diversity. And while much more needs to be done, chief diversity officers have been hired at record rates to withstand the challenges placed on companies shortly after the murder of George […]
“Hyperblack Spectacle,” a solo exhibition by Detroit-based artist Johnny Floyd at Conduit Gallery, accomplishes what only the greatest art does: It takes something familiar — something we think we already know — and inspires us to reconsider how we view the world. In this case, Floyd wants us to reconsider how we view Black people […]
A view of the George Floyd mural at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue a day before opening statements in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder charges in the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., March 28, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo Oct 4 (Reuters) – The Texas State […]