People stand in front of a mural of George Floyd in Houston, Texas on June 8, 2020.
- George Floyd, the 46-year-old African American whose killing by a white police officer transformed him into a global icon of the struggle against racism and police brutality, will be laid to rest on June 9 in Houston, the city where he grew up. United States police killed no fewer than 1,098 people in 2019, one-quarter of them black Americans, representing 13 per cent of the population, according to the group Mapping Police Violence.
US police are empowered to use their firearms at any “reasonable” expectation of immediate danger to themselves or others — a subjective standard. In Minneapolis, the city council has called for a wholesale dismantling and rebuilding of the Midwestern city’s police department.
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