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Here are some people which got to say important words in the case of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the crime case of George Floyd himself.

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George Floyd wasn’t the only one who faced police violence in such a tragic way.
On the night of March 13th, the Louisville Metro Police executed a warrant, looking for drugs they never found, reportedly trafficked by a person who did not live with Breonna Taylor or in her complex-and whom they already had in custody.

They sprayed her home with 20 rounds, shooting Breonna 8 times, killing her in her bed.

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Breonna Taylor was an award-winning EMT and first responder in Lousiville, KY, who loved helping her patients and her community. "She was an essential worker. She had to go to work," her mother, Tamika Palmer said of her dedication to standing on the frontlines of this pandemic.

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One of the officers charged in George Floyd's death, LEAVES jail after posting $750,000 bond

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Thomas Lane, 37, who had been held in substitute of $750,000 cash bail, was freed shortly before 4:10pm from the Hennepin County Jail.

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Thomas Lane, 37, who had been held in lieu of $750,000 cash bail, was freed shortly before 4:10pm from the Hennepin County Jail

Lane is one of three charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in connection to the death of Floyd

His attorney, Earl Gray, said the embattled rookie cop accepted bail with conditions and is currently back living with his wife

His next court appearance is slated for June 29 where Gray says he plans to file a motion to dismiss all charges

Lane's family members had set up a fundraising page for the ex-cop earlier this week, asking the public for donations

Gray has not yet returned a DailyMail.com request for comment as to whether any funds generated from the fundraiser contributed towards his bond

One of the four fired Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd posted bail and was released from custody Wednesday afternoon.

Thomas Lane, 37, who had been held in lieu of $750,000 cash bail, was freed shortly before 4:10pm from the Hennepin County Jail, a spokesperson from the Sheriff's Office confirmed.

Lane is one of three charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in connection to the death of Floyd, 46, who died while being arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill on Memorial Day.

His attorney, Earl Gray, said the embattled rookie cop accepted bail with conditions and is currently back living with his wife, though declined to specify where citing safety reasons.

Lane had been locked up for the last week. His next court appearance is slated for June 29 where Gray says he plans to file a motion to dismiss all charges.

'Now we can watch what happens next from outside,' Gray told the Tribune. 'We will bring a motion to dismiss and hopefully it will be granted.'

Lane's co-defendants, Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng all remain in jail as of Wednesday evening.

According to charging documents, Lane - who initially took Floyd into custody - held down the father-of-five's legs, while Keung held his back and Chauvin knelt down on his neck for eight minutes and 45 seconds.

Gray has previously stated that the case against his client is 'weak'. He says that Lane asked Chauvin if Floyd should be rolled over onto his side amid the 46-year-old's cries of 'I can't breathe'.

The attorney also protests that Lane, working only his fourth shift with the Minneapolis PD, attempted to resuscitate Floyd in the ambulance moments before he was pronounced dead.

'[Lane was] pounding on this guy trying to revive him. Where is the willful intent?' Gray asked during a court hearing.

Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, with his bail set at $1.25 million.

Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng, meanwhile, who face the same charges as Lane, are still being detained in lieu of $750,000 cash bonds as of 6:31pm.

Lane's family members had set up a fundraising page for the ex-cop earlier this week, asking the public for donations for his 'defense fund'.

The author of the fundraiser called Lane's bail amount - originally set at $1 million - 'unreasonable', and said the 37-year-old did 'all he could to save George Floyd's life'.

'This shows a total disregard for equal justice under the law,' the author thundered.

It's unclear how much the page generated in donations. The website was 'under construction' as of Wednesday and is no longer accessible.

Neither Gray nor the organizer of the fundraiser has yet returned a DailyMail.com request for comment as to whether any funds generated from the 'defense fund' contributed towards his bond amount being met.

The page had listed a number of Lane's 'accolades' and also highlighted various volunteer work he had undertaken prior to his arrest.

Such highlights included winning a 2019 Community Service Award and volunteering at an after-school mentoring program at Bel Air Elementary School, the page detailed.

However, prior to his employment at the Minneapolis PD, Lane had also accumulated a lengthy rap sheet dating back to 2001.

Four of the charges were relating to traffic citations and two parking-meter violations, however he was convicted on a criminal charges of obstructing legal process and one charge of damaging property in October 2001.

Lane appeared alongside Thao and Keung in a preliminary court appearance on June 4.

During their appearance, they were ordered not to work again in security or law enforcement, to surrender their gun, and never have any contact with the victim's family.

Thao appeared before the judge first, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and face mask. His layer originally asked for his client's bail to be set at $200,000, but Judge Paul Scoggin said he was 'hard pressed' to find any cases to compare the case to and denied the motion.

Keung's lawyer, Thomas Plunkett, argued that George Floyd's death occurred during only his client's third shift as a police officer. He also asked for leniency and a bail of $200,000 without conditions, but the motion was rejected.

Chauvin made his first court appearance on Monday, exactly two weeks after Floyd's death. It had been due to take place last week, but was pushed back due to security concerns.

Those same concerns led the 44-year-old to not appear in person but via video link from the maximum security Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights where he has been held under suicide watch since being moved from Hennepin County Jail on June 1.

During the hearing, he spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth and when asked if he had any firearms still in his possession. His next court appearance is also set for June 29.

Yesterday, DailyMail.com reported that in the days leading up to his arrest, Chauvin had been negotiating a guilty plea deal with prosecutors.

Those talks took place four days after Floyd's May 25 death, and broke down the day before he was arrested.

Sources said the deal would've been 'universal', and would've included state murder charges as well as federal civil rights charges.

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office has since confirmed the existence of Chauvin's plea talks in a statement.

'There were early negotiations with [Chauvin], between the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, and the U.S. Attorney,' said Hennepin County Attorney spokesperson Chuck Laszewski. 'Ultimately, those negotiations failed.'

How and why the deal fell apart, in addition to what offer was specifically on the table, remains unclear.

Talks were ongoing on May 28 and even delayed a previously announced press conference that day by nearly two hours.

'I thought we would have another development to talk to you about, but we don't,' said U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald during the press briefing outside of the FBI's Brooklyn Center Headquarters

By the next day, Friday, May 29, Chauvin was arrested by police and the Hennepin County Attorney had charged him with third-degree murder.

Under intense public scrutiny, Hennepin County asked Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to join the prosecution 48 hours later.

The following day, on June 1, Chauvin had been scheduled to make an initial court appearance, but it was rescheduled at short notice.

Then last Wednesday Chauvin's charge was upgraded to second-degree murder, and the three other officers involved in the arrest were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

Floyd's death launched a nationwide call for defunding the police and prompted Black Lives Matter protests globally.

The 'gentle giant' was laid to rest on Tuesday at the Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland next to his mother, Lacendra, who he called out for when he was struggling for air just before he died.

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Thomas Lane, 37, who had been held in lieu of $750,000 cash bail, was freed shortly before 4:10pm from the Hennepin County Jail Lane is one of three charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in connection to the death of Floyd His attorney, Earl Gray, said

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The 75 year old peace activist, Martin Gugino was pushed by two Buffalo Police Officers while handing them a police helmet. He suffered serious head injuries, let’s see what the president has to say about it.

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Two Buffalo police officers suspended after incident in Niagara Square that left protester injured

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We know that the 44 year old police officer Derek Chauvin is responsible for George Floyd’s Death. He knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. But at the crime scene there were another 3 now former police officers. They were just standing there and ignoring the gasps and the muffled cries for help from the 46-year-old. They‘re named Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Kiernan Lane (from the left) and charged with second-degree aiding and abetting felony murder and second-degree aiding and abetting manslaughter in the death of the 46-year-old-man. The judge Paul Scoggin thought the defendants could be released on a lower bail than Chauvin with his $1 million bail. He ordered $750,000 but only if they followed specific conditions. All of them have to

- work in no law enforcement capacity,
- surrender firearms,
- void firearm permits,
- avoid contact with the victim‘s family,
- agree to waive extradition should they leave the state

https://abcnews.go.com/US/officers-charged-floyds-death-make-1st-court-appearance/story?id=71066710

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According to a large number of witnesses someone should‘ve shot a homeless man in a wheelchair with a rubber bullet right into the face last Saturday on the 6th of June. It happened as a George-Floyd-protesting crowd of people passed by in the streets of Downtown L.A. But the poor man himself wasn‘t involved. Still, he got a bullet straight into the eye and was all bruised and bloody, as people tell. This event impressively proves how quickly named mass-demanding actions can backfire. The Los Angeles Police Department although says that it is aware of the images on social media and currently investigating.

https://abc7.com/los-angeles-protest-downtown-county-protests-george-floyd/6234476/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/06/08/the-deadly-truth-behind-rubber-bullets/

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George Floyd was buried just yesterday on the 9th of June. The funeral found place in the „Fountain of Praise“ Church in Houston when he got celebrated for his life and value for the now upcoming unstoppable movement of the men and women which no longer accept the inequality and brutality from the police and generally everyone as it is today. Even the families of those black people which got killed earlier like Breonna Taylor were on George Floyd‘s commemorative ceremony to honor him. They were just a few of all the family and friends such as prominent figures which attended the burial.

„God took the rejected stone and made him the cornerstone of a movement that‘s going to change the whole world. Your family is going to miss you George, but your nation is going to always remember your name. Because your neck was one that represents all
of us, and how you suffered is how we all suffer.“
- Rev. Al Sharpton

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/09/us/george-floyd-funeral-tuesday/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/01/george-floyd-protests-editorials-worldwide

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What does it do? What are the ideas for a new differently conceived law and justice system?
These are the points that should be heard:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/democrats-release-police-reform-bill-after-george-floyd-protests.html

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This post of @goodgoodgoodco shows the way of how to be actively antiracist, because if you want to do something against racism it’s not enough to be just not racist.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvbZyVh1xc/?igshid=1uq1x17hzpwvz

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Honoring of George Floyd and other victims

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Honoring of George Floyd and other victims

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On the day 8th of June the Congressional Democrats around House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer took themselves a moment of silence to honor George Floyd and other people which became victims of police abuse at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Mrs. Pelosi claimed Monday morning that George Floyd is a ‚martyr‘ of police brutality. They all kneeled for exactly 8 minutes and 45 seconds - the range of time George fought for his dear life. After that the Democrats unveiled their massive police reform bill.

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The clip in which George Floyd’s 6 year old daughter, Gianna, is saying ,,Dad changed the world.’’ went viral but how does she and her mother feel like after his death. 

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The clip in which George Floyd’s 6 year old daughter, Gianna, is saying ,,Dad changed the world.’’ went viral but how does she and her mother feel like after his death. 

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George Floyd’s wife and their daughter were interviewed on Good Morning America. The devastated mother explained that she wasn’t able to tell her daughter how her father died.

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While some influencers took their time to educate their audience on the subject, some of them took George Floyd’s tragic death as an opportunity to gain more followers.
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Minneapolis, May 25, 2020, 8 PM

Police officers were informed that someone tried to use counterfeit money in a store. They approached the suspect in his vehicle. The officers struggled  to get the suspect (George Floyd, 46)  out of the car but then successfully handcuffed him. Floyd fallen to the ground and the officer lifted him up and led him to the sidewalk. With him they walked across the street back towards their squad car where he fallen a second time.

A witness captured how one of the officers (Derek Chauvin, 44) pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck while Floyd was pleading for his mother and repeatedly saying "I can't breathe".
He died shortly after lapsing into unconsciousness.

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George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe

The US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.

George Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Footage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.

Mr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.

Transcripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.

The key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.

It began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.

A report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.

Believing the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.

Mr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.

But Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.

In a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but "he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that", according to a transcript released by authorities.

The employee said the man appeared "drunk" and "not in control of himself", the transcript says.

Shortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.

After approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.

Mr Lane, prosecutors said, "put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car". Then Mr Floyd "actively resisted being handcuffed".

Once handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for "passing counterfeit currency".

Court transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.

Mr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.

It was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.

Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'

At about 20:14, Mr Floyd "stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic", according to the report.

Mr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.

During this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.

He lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.

That's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.

Mr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.

For more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.

The transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging "please, please, please".

At one point, Mr Floyd gasps: "You're going to kill me, man."

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Derek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder

Officer Chauvin replies: "Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."

Mr Floyd says: "Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."

A female bystander told the police: "His nose is bleeding, come on now."

About six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.

Officer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but "couldn't find one". Yet the other officers did not move.

At 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.

He was pronounced dead about an hour later.

In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death

On the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.

Forgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.

"The way he died was senseless," Harris said. "He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands."

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,,Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible - until you let sun in. Then you see it everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it.’’
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Two weeks of protests - What‘s happening now?

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In the weeks since video evidence showed a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, for almost nine minutes, protests have erupted across the US and the rest of the world.

From Minneapolis to London to New York and Atlanta, thousands have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity. Organizations and individuals have donated millions; editors have resigned; and statues have toppled. Here are just some of the concrete changes we are seeing happening across the US right now.

Minneapolis commits to dismantling its police

Protesters gathered outside the Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey's home over the weekend, and demanded to know his position on defunding the police. When he said he did not believe in fully abolishing the police, he was subjected to chants of "shame" and protesters telling him to leave.

Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey showed up today at the protests. He was asked if he would commit to abolishing/defunding the police. Incredible to witness crowd hold him directly accountable. Man did a literal walk of shame. pic.twitter.com/v645mfIZHt

But his reluctance didn't matter. A veto-proof majority of councillors subsequently vowed to dismantle the police on Sunday, pledging a "transformative new model of public safety".

In doing so, they accepted that the Minneapolis police department - which five consecutive m ayors have ultimately failed at reforming - might be beyond repair. Now, council members plan to develop a plan for policing with the community. Having analysed 911 calls, they have already found that the majority pertain to mental health services, health and emergency medical services and fire services - and so, in part, are committing to redirecting efforts to social services instead.

Big reforms pledged in New York City

With social service budgets under threat in New York due to Covid-19, campaigners knew their target: the NYPD's $6bn budget - which amounts to more than the budgets for health ($1.9bn), homeless services ($2.1bn), youth and community development ($872,000), and small business services ($293,000) combined.

The NYPD defended its budget, arguing that a cut would result in a spike in crime. But others noted that when New York police went on strike to prove how important they were, and in fact, people reported less crime.

That call seems to have been heeded. On Sunday, the New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, pledged to redirect some of New York City police department's funding towards youth and social services. He committed to repealing section 50-A, which prevents the public from accessing disciplinary records of police officers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor)
Saying "I hear you" is not enough. Here's what I'm doing right now to make our city more just: pic.twitter.com/PoTu1xgxP2

Confederate statues toppled across the country

On Saturday protesters in Richmond, Virginia toppled the statue of slave and plantation owner, the Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham, using ropes to pull it down. Earlier in the week, protesters in Montgomery, Alabama took down the statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee.

On Friday,a 5ft statue that had stood on the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama, for 120 years was removed by the council. Mayor Sandy Stimpson released a statement Friday, saying: "To be clear: This decision is not about Raphael Semmes, it is not about a monument and it is not an attempt to rewrite history.

"Moving this statue will not change the past. It is about removing a potential distraction so we may focus clearly on the future of our city. That conversation, and the mission to create One Mobile, continues today."

Bristol, in the UK, also had its own revolutionary moment this weekend, toppling the statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston.

Reddit co-founder resigns to make room for a black candidate

Reddit's co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Friday resigned on a video urging the board to fill his seat with a black candidate - a decision he said was "long overdue". In it, he said: "I am doing this as a father, who needs to be able to look in the eyes of his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?"

Ohanian also pledged $1m to Colin Kaepernick's Know your Rights Camp in the announcement, and committed to further donations in the future.

Ohanian has argued that resigning can be an act of leadership - and has asked other leaders to consider doing the same.

Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀 (@alexisohanian)
I'm saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: "What did you do?"⁰ https://t.co/4UiozIOo8P

A database has been set up to record police brutality at the protests

This week, lawyers T Gregg Doucette and mathematician Jason Miller began creating a database of video footage documenting police violence at the protests over the past week. They argue that the document will prevent police from being able to shield themselves by arguing that incidents of violence as one-offs, instead showing a pattern of violence and brutality.

As of midday Monday, the spreadsheet contains more than 500 cases of police brutality at the protests - in a week which has seen journalists and citizens teargassed, beaten and pepper-sprayed.

* This article was amended on 8 & 9 June 2020: to correct a reference to Minneapolis city council plans - councillors have committed to dismantling the police but have not voted on the matter. The statue of Raphael Semmes was in Mobile, Alabama, not Birmingham, Alabama as an earlier version said.
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What the George Floyd protests have achieved in just two weeks

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In the weeks since video evidence showed a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, for almost nine minutes, protests have erupted across the US and the rest of the world. From Minneapolis to London to New York and Atlanta, thousands have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity.

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Once George Floyd suffered his death the news of someone who was again abused and this time actually killed by the local police spread like canon fire. Given that so much people, especially black ones had to face violence by police officers in the U.S. before, protests and several different reactions on social platforms almost started immediately. There are quiet a number of videos from influencers and reports on newspaper websites that proof great shock and anger from all over the world. Protests were held in big cities like Los Angeles, New York and Charlotte, N.C.
On Monday the protesters marched at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, another 1,000 gathered in L.A. near a memorial for all those killed by the police. In Charlotte , N.C. they called for police reforms right before a City Council Meeting.

„This is a young, young revolution. These are teenagers, people in their 20s, 30-year-olds. We have energy. We believe in what we‘re doing, and we‘re not going to let up.“
- Vidal Guzman, leader of Fifth Avenue protests in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/george-floyd-protests.html

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Many are devastated because of Trump’s words.
Using words like ,,thugs,, just really shows the true colors of president Donald Trump. People encourage others to vote, for them having to endure Trump as a president for another 4 years would be a nightmare. Having a racist president in a country which often is called the country of freedom is something that many Americans aren’t proud of. Especially when nearly 15% of the the population in the US is black. https://www.spox.com/de/sport/ussport/2005/Diashows/reaktionen-auf-trump-tweet/george-floyd-proteste-minneapolis-polizeigewalt-trump-isaiah-thomas-jordan-bell.html

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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama spoke candidly in their virtual commencement speeches about how they feel about the protests following George Floyd's death and what people can do to make change.

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Judge sets Derek Chauvin's bail at $1.25 million in George Floyd's death

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Judge sets Derek Chauvin's bail at $1.25 million in George Floyd's death

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Derek Chauvin will appear in court for the first time on two-week anniversary of George Floyd's death

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The third and final memorial service for George Floyd will be held Monday in Houston, where he grew up and lived before moving to Minneapolis, where he died at the hands of a police officer.

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The three former officers were remanded with $1M bail.

A Minneapolis judge remanded three of the four former officers involved in George Floyd's death on a million dollars bail during their first court appearance Thursday afternoon.

Kiernan Lane, Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao were all charged with second-degree aiding and abetting felony murder and second-degree aiding and abetting manslaughter in the death of the 46-year-old man. Former officer Derek Chauvin was arrested last week and initially charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, but those charges were upgraded to second-degree murder Wednesday. He is currently in jail on a $500,000 bond.

Judge Paul Scoggin ordered the defendants could be released on a lower bail amount of $750,000 if they followed specific conditions: Work in no law enforcement capacity, surrender firearms, void firearm permits, no contact with the victim's family and agree to waive extradition should they leave the state.

The former officers didn't enter pleas, but their attorneys each made a case for a lighter bail sentence, citing their ties to the community and cooperation with the investigation. Kueng's attorney offered his condolences to Floyd's family.

Their next court appearance is June 29.

The cops arrested Floyd outside a convenience store on Memorial Day, which was captured on several cameras.

Chauvin, 44, placed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes as Floyd said "I can't breathe," before he was killed, according to the criminal complaint.

Lane, 37, allegedly held Floyd's legs down while Kueng, 26 allegedly held Floyd's back as Chauvin placed his knee, the criminal complaint said. Thao, 34, allegedly watched the entire incident with his hands in his pockets, according to the complaint.

Earl Gray, Lane's attorney, said his client was a rookie officer on his fourth day on the force while Chauvin was a training officer. Kueng was also a rookie officer, according to Minneapolis police department records.

Gray said his client asked Chuavin if it was OK to roll Floyd over. Chauvin, allegedly, refused to do so, according to the criminal complaint.

"What is my client supposed to do other than follow what the training officer said?" Gray asked the judge.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank, however, contended that Lane held down Floyd during the arrest.

"That is the role of an aider and abettor," he said.

ABC News' Whitney T. Lloyd contributed to this report.

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3 former officers charged in George Floyd's death make 1st court appearance

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The three former officers were remanded with $1M bail. A Minneapolis judge remanded three of the four former officers involved in George Floyd's death on a million dollars bail during their first court appearance Thursday afternoon.

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