Former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee on George Floyd's neck for about nine minutes as the man begged for his life, will make...
Former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes as the man begged for his life, will make his first court appearance on Monday,Mr Chauvin was arrested last month, having first been sacked, and was at first charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But prosecutors, last week,His other three accomplices — Thomas Lane, J.
What started as a protest in Minneapolis — where an unarmed Mr Floyd was slayed with his body pinned to the floor by three policemen as he gasped for breathe — quickly spread across the United States before going global. The demonstrations, in some states in the U S., were particularly accompanied with violence, looting and vandalism with thousands of arrests and injuries recorded.
As a result of the protest, last week, an adjoining building to the White House was named Black Lives Matter Plaza, and the term was engraved on a road leading to the nation’s seat of power.
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