Nearly three years after a white police officer killed a Black man by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes, the city of Minneapolis announced Friday that it had approved a plan to reform its police force.
The death of 46-year-old George Floyd, whose ordeal was filmed by a passerby, sparked mass protests across the country — and even in global cities — under the slogan “Black Lives Matter.”
The Floyd murder on May 25, 2020 led to sharp criticism of law enforcement methods not only in Minneapolis, a midwestern city, but other US metropolitan areas.
An investigation launched after his death by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights concluded last year that the tragedy was part of a pattern of “race discrimination” within the police…
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