Tag: George Floyd

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 07:44 UTC

  United States celebrates “Juneteenth”, the new national holiday marking the end of slavery

  

  The United States celebrated over the weekend “Juneteenth”, the newly declared national holiday that marks the end of slavery and which comes a year after George Floyd's murder sparked anti-racism protests.

• Saturday, June 12th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Pulitzer “special citation” for a teenager who caught on video the murder of George Floyd by police

  

  A teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice was awarded a “special citation” on Friday by the Pulitzer Prize Board.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 20:31 UTC

  Former white policeman guilty of murdering black man in racial case which sparked unrest in US - President Biden “relieved”

  

  Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts Tuesday by a jury of his peers for the killing of George Floyd in an incident that sparked racial violence all across the United States in 2020 leading up to the presidential elections. Chauvin is white; Foyd was black.

• Saturday, March 13th 2021 - 08:28 UTC

  Minneapolis City agrees to pay US$ 27 million to George Floyd family

  

  The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay US$27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injustice and police brutality. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in May as Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  A George Floyd similar incident video-taped in London: “get off my neck” cried the black man

  

  London's police force suspended an officer on Friday after video footage emerged of him appearing to kneel on the head and neck of a Black man they had detained who cried out, “Get off my neck!”

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Facebook 'hate speech' boycott: 400 brands stop advertising; civil rights groups insist in meeting Zuckerberg

  

  Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook as of Thursday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site.

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 18:50 UTC

  PM Johnson: Britain cannot 'photoshop' its cultural landscape and complex history

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain cannot “photoshop” its cultural landscape and complex history as doing so would be a distortion of its past, amid an ongoing row over the removal of statues of historical figures.

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 06:12 UTC

  Trump favors a ban on police chokeholds in most instances

  

  US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired that he would like to see a ban on police chokeholds in most instances, although he suggested their use would be understandable in some one-on-one situations.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 10:35 UTC

  Slave trader statue fished out of Bristol harbor; Bournemouth will remove a bronze of Robert Baden-Powell

  

  The statue of a slave trader toppled by anti-racism protesters was on Thursday fished out of the harbour in the English city of Bristol, as another historical monument was set to be taken down.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 13:08 UTC

  NYT editorial chief head rolls after publishing the “Send the troops” column from a Republican US Senator

  

  James Bennet, the New York Times editorial page editor responsible for publishing a column that advocated using the military to quiet protests over U.S. racial inequality, resigned on Sunday, the newspaper announced.