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House panel demands answers from gun makers on marketing of assault weapons

Tribune News Service

Minneapolis to pay $600,000 to journalist blinded by police projectile in wake of George Floyd's death

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council this week approved a $600,000 payout to a freelance journalist who lost her eye to a police projectile while covering protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder in spring 2020.

Tribune News Service

Governor saw deadly arrest video months before prosecutors

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards watched a key video of Black motorist Ronald Greene's deadly 2019 arrest six months before prosecutors knew it existed

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Racism in the ranks: Dutch police film spurs conversation

A documentary about discrimination within the ranks of Dutch police has sparked a national conversation in the Netherlands about racism

The Independent UK

'Frontline' teams up with Star Tribune for documentary on Minneapolis police

MINNEAPOLIS — During nearly 40 years of investigative journalism, "Frontline" has crisscrossed the world, reporting on everything from the rise of Vladimir Putin in Russia to the fall of apartheid in South Africa.

Tribune News Service

Maro Itoje vows never to sing England rugby anthem ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ again due to slavery origin

Maro Itoje has announced that he will no longer partake in the England rugby anthem ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’.

Evening Standard

First Thing: Texas gunman was inside school for 40 minutes

More information has emerged on the deadly school shooting, including a timeline. Plus, Walmart apologizes for selling Juneteenth-themed ice-cream

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‘Enough!’ Biden, decrying mass shootings and excessive force, signs executive order on policing

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday marked the second anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer by signing an executive order aimed at reforming policing at the federal level.

Los Angeles Times

2 years later, Minnesotans gather to remember George Floyd

MINNEAPOLIS — The two-year anniversary of George Floyd's killing began quietly and with a cold rain Wednesday morning at the corner where he died.

Tribune News Service

Two years after Floyd, Biden signs police reform executive order

Steering a middle path, US president finds consensus for narrow reforms after overhaul proposals fail in Congress.

Al Jazeera

Stricter curfew approved by divided City Council

Mayoral allies and critics alike again condemned the crackdown as a desperate response that will have no impact on an outbreak of youth violence downtown — but signed off on it anyway.

Chicago Sun-Times

Anti-racism protestors take a knee in Nottingham in George Floyd's memory

Black Lives Matter protesters chanted 'I can't breathe' in front of the Council House

Nottingham Post

‘I don’t have all the answers, but something does have to change,” says Boston’s Jayson Tatum on Uvalde, Texas school shooting

'What happened yesterday in Texas was devastating,' shared Tatum, commenting on the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

On 2nd anniversary of George Floyd's killing, Black Buffalo residents feel the weight

The shooting at a Tops grocery store, which authorities say was motivated by racist hate, brought into sharper focus the weight of being a target.

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The Independent UK

Two years after Floyd murder, racial trauma permeates US

Wednesday marks the second anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked a global protest movement and calls for a racial reckoning to address structural racism that has created long-standing inequities impacting generations of Black Americans

The Independent UK

When and how did George Floyd die?

Trial was one of the biggest civil rights cases in a generation

The Guardian - US

Biden signs police reform executive order on anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

Measure addresses use of force and other policies after broader legislation stalled in Congress

Tribune News Service

Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of George Floyd’s death

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon aimed at putting new limits on federal law enforcement, to mark the second anniversary of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis Police officer.

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Al Jazeera

‘I can’t breathe’: How Manuel Ellis was killed by police

Three months before George Floyd was killed by US police, another Black man spoke his final words: ‘I can’t breathe.’

Daily Mirror

How George Floyd's horror murder two years ago sparked protests around the world

White Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd's neck for nine minutes while he was handcuffed in an arrest over the alleged use of a counterfeit note

Tribune News Service

Two years after George Floyd's murder, Minneapolis' efforts to transform safety remain unfinished

MINNEAPOLIS — Damarra Atkins remembers vividly what it felt like to watch George Floyd's murder for the first time.

Al Jazeera

George Floyd two years on: some accountability but killings go on

Minneapolis officers prosecuted, local reforms adopted in some states, but national overhaul of policing falls short.

The Guardian - UK

What would George Floyd’s life have looked like without the crushing weight of racism?

Two years on from his death, it’s worth considering the success he might have had in a different world, say writers Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

The Guardian - US

White solidarity doesn’t last much longer than the flowers left as memorials to Black lives

Two years ago, George Floyd was murdered. I remember the outpouring of grief. But apparently ‘healing’ is synonymous with forgetting

Roll Call

Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of George Floyd's death - Roll Call

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon aimed at putting new limits on federal law enforcement.

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