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Ken Ritter Family members of Byron Williams, from left, niece Teena Acree, brother Ellis Magee, niece Marcia Wells, sister Robyn Williams, and sister Tina Lewis-Stevenson hold up a picture of Byron Williams during a news conference, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Las Vegas. The family of 50-year-old Byron Williams, whose death in Las Vegas police custody after a bicycle chase in 2019 was ruled a homicide, is suing the city and four officers they accuse of wrongful death and civil rights violations. (AP Photo/John Locher) July 15, 2021 - 5:01 PM LAS VEGAS (AP) â Members of George Floydâs family and their attorney said Thursday they support a federal excessive force, wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit filed this week in Nevada by relatives of a Black man who died in handcuffs after Las Vegas police chased him on a bicycle and on foot in 2019. ....
Updated Vegas death after 2019 arrest draws Floyd family, lawyer LAS VEGAS (AP) Members of George Floyd’s family and their attorney said Thursday they support a federal excessive force, wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit filed this week in Nevada by relatives of a Black man who died in handcuffs after Las Vegas police chased him on a bicycle and on foot in 2019. “Byron Lee Williams’ life mattered,” Williams’ family members said in their 44-page legal filing, echoing chants during protests and violence last year in U.S. cities including Las Vegas following the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis and the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. ....
2019 death after Vegas arrest draws Floyd family, lawyer by Ken Ritter, The Associated Press Posted Jul 15, 2021 7:17 pm EDT Last Updated Jul 15, 2021 at 7:27 pm EDT LAS VEGAS (AP) Members of George Floyd’s family and their attorney said Thursday they support a federal excessive force, wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit filed this week in Nevada by relatives of a Black man who died in handcuffs after Las Vegas police chased him on a bicycle and on foot in 2019. “Byron Lee Williams’ life mattered,” Williams’ family members said in their 44-page legal filing, echoing chants during protests and violence last year in U.S. cities including Las Vegas following the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis and the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. ....
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Las Vegas Weekly “Black Lives Matter I” by Robin Brownfield Photo: Yasmina Chavez In a 1968 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Those words, inspired by 19th-century abolitionist Theodore Parker, are engraved on the South Wall of King’s Washington, D.C., memorial. Barack Obama often quoted them, and even had them woven into an Oval Office rug. And now, North Las Vegas’ Left of Center Art Gallery has themed a new art show around them. “Hands Up or I’ll Shoot” by Dayo Adelaja ....