Latest Death of George Floyd News
New Orleans wants to end federal oversight of its police. Critics aren't convinced
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city of New Orleans and the U.S. Justice Department are pushing to end more than a decade of police oversight that was ordered in response to a long history of mistreatment of African Americans and notorious corruption, including a 1994 murder ordered by a crooked cop and...
Judge allows testing of tissue from George Floyd as officer convicted of killing him seeks new trial
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer's efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge stemming from Floyd's death in 2020. ...
A George Floyd protester injured by Fort Lauderdale police gets $2 million in lawsuit settlement
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A protester who suffered eye damage when a rubber bullet fired by Fort Lauderdale police struck her in the face during a 2020 protest over George Floyd’s murder has received $2 million from the city to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the officer and the department...
Businesses at struggling corner where George Floyd was killed sue Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several business owners at the struggling corner where George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 are suing the city to demand it take over their properties and compensate them. The owners of the Cup Foods convenience store and other...
A decade of racial justice activism transformed politics, but landmark reforms remain elusive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One is of Michael Brown. Brown’s...
City Council candidate claims he's George Floyd's cousin. His family says otherwise
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Relatives of a City Council candidate in Richmond, Virginia, are casting doubt on his claim that he is a cousin of George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 death in police custody reignited the national Black Lives Matter movement. Tavares Floyd wants to...
Minnesota school district bans officer from teaching after he reenacted George Floyd's murder
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota school district has banned a police officer from working as a substitute teacher after a series of “racially harmful” actions that officials say included putting a student on the ground for a reenactment of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis...
How Tucson police handled a death like George Floyd’s when leaders thought it would never happen
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Leaders of the Tucson Police Department had heard a little about the video. Now, for the first time, they would judge for themselves how grim it was. As the top brass gathered in a conference room at headquarters, Tucson was, like much of America, protesting...
Takeaways from AP investigation on the struggle to change a police department
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Like many American cities, in June 2020 Tucson was struggling with the murder of George Floyd. What protesters didn’t know was that their city had two undisclosed deaths of Latino men who — like Floyd — said they could not breathe after officers pinned them face down. ...
