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Live Updates: Teen Who Recorded Floydâs Murder Speaks Out as Americans Gather to Mark his Death
President Biden hosted the Floyd family at the White House on the anniversary of his murder, but legislation that bears his name has stalled in Congress. Morning gunshots rang out at the spot where he died in Minneapolis.
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Protesters participate in a vigil in Brooklyn on Tuesday, the one year anniversary of George Floydâs death.Credit.Stephanie Keith for The New York Times
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Black Lives Matter protesters walked over the Brooklyn Bridge on Tuesday.Credit.Stephanie Keith for The New York Times
Live Updates: Teen Who Recorded Floyd s Murder Speaks Out as Americans Gather to Mark his Death
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CASE DISMISSED A superior court judge has tossed a lawsuit against the state from five failed Republican office-seekers who sought to decertify the 2020 general election results bringing to a close one of the nation’s lesser-known election challenges to the November contest.
Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity
Demonstrators protest near the Hennepin County Courthouse on April 19, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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prima facie case of crimes against humanity and they asked the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate an investigation of responsible police officials.
These crimes against humanity under the ICC’s Rome Statute include
murder,
persecution of people of African descent, and
inhumane acts causing great suffering or serious injury to body or mental or physical health. All of the crimes occurred in the context of a widespread or systematic attack directed against the civilian population of Black people in the United States, as documented by the findings of fact in the 188-page report.
Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette
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All of Us leader Mikayla Foster speaks on the steps of City Hall during a press conference as they request changes to be made in city hall meetings for the voices to be heard during public hearings at Schenectady City Hall Monday
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SCHENECTADY The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spoke at a City Council public hearing on the plan said Monday night.
Some speakers were members of All of Us, a community group that continues to push for consideration of 13 demands for reform it made last summer, in the middle of last summer’s nationwide Black Lives Matter movement against police-involved deaths of unarmed Black people and police brutality. Other speakers were members of the local clergy.
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