legal team is gathering the resources to properly define him against a federal indictment. we ll bring you the latest on trump s legal troubles in another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, it. good morning, i m ali velshi. the minneapolis police department for years engaged in, quote, excessive force, unlawful discrimination and violations of constitutional rights. those are the findings of a two-year federal investigation into the police department. triggered by the murder of george floyd. on may 25th, 2020, george floyd s three final words became a fixture in history as at the weight of the minneapolis police officer derek chauvin was actively cutting off his oxygen flow. those three words were i can t breathe. we now know that george floyd s choking death was not an isolated incident. the attorney general merrick garland announced on friday, quote, we found numerous incidents in which officers responded to a person s statement that they could no
The way Frederick Douglass found out the year and month of his birth was by finding a ledger of his enslaver. What was missing from the ledger was the date.
frederick douglass house to the capitol. but he was in chicago. i didn t get what i wanted. but guess what? what. he did help me get 1,000,500 signatures to take to congress, and we were prepared to take that many more when we got the call to go to the white house. that s amazing. i ll tell you, i was a happy camper. when you are at the white house, you exchanged words with joe biden during his official signing of juneteenth. it was june of 2021 at this point, some several years later, what did you talk about, what did you say in that moment? well, i thought i would keep something to myself. i m not telling all. he gave me that pen, that i am delighted to have and every one of those he used to sign the
She led the movement to gain federal recognition of the holiday. This June 19, she’ll again walk 2.5 miles, marking the 2.5 years it took for news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach Texas.
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