Minneapolis
The protests in Britain over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has set in motion a debate statues, with many in our public spaces commemorating those who were directly linked with the slave trade. Claudine Van Hensbergen is an expert on sculptures in public spaces and explains how we interact with statues, what they mean to a society and how we deal with their legacy is only part of Britain’s fight against racism.
After George Floyd’s killing, US protesters and politicians want to see police budgets slashed – or forces dismantled altogether.
Protesters booed mayor Jacob Frey and told him to leave the protest after he said he supported police reform but not abolishing the department altogether.
It is hard work to get her to see the world through my eyes, even when the facts are staring her right in the face ― or in the neighbourhood where we both lived.
George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 after police officer Derek Chauvin used lethal force to arrest him. As Floyd, a Black man, lay face down on the street, Chauvin, a white man, kneeled on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds as Floyd begged for air – and his life. In tribute to Floyd, the countless Black victims of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, we reflect on the recent vigils held across the world in silence and compassion – for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Roxie Washington, the mother of Geroge Floyd's 6-year-old daughter Gianna Floyd, spoke publicly after days of protests following his death. Washington spoke with her daughter by her side and came after George’s brother appealing for calm in Minneapolis. Protests have swept US cities since the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who died after a white policeman pinned his neck under a knee for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis.
The independent autopsy was conducted at the request of Floyd's family.
The incident reportedly occurred after curfew, but the curfew order only applies to public places, not private property.
British observers shouldn’t console themselves with the thought that what's happening in the US could not happen here – our post-Covid society is a potential tinderbox, Diane Abbott writes.
Across the U.S. protests raged following the killing of a Black man at the hands of a white police officer.