RIP George Floyd.

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‘He represented us’: George Floyd’s lasting impact as a two-sport athlete in Houston
Floyd’s death in the hands of police in Minneapolis, where Floyd had moved several years ago, has hit particularly hard for those with roots in the Third Ward. The protests, which began in Minneapolis and have now gone global, are indicators of just how horrifying the footage was of the Houston native pleading for his life while three officers sat on him, one with his knee pressed firmly on Floyd’s neck.

 

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Judge warns of possible move of trial in George Floyd death

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A Minnesota judge on Monday warned that he’s likely to move the trials of four former police officers charged in George Floyd’s death out of Minneapolis if public officials, attorneys and family members don’t stop speaking out about the case. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill stopped short of issuing a gag order against attorneys on both sides, but he said he likely will if public statements continue that make it hard to find an impartial jury. Cahill said that would also make him likely to grant a change-of-venue motion if one is filed, as he anticipates. “The court is not going to be happy about hearing comments on these three areas: merits, evidence and guilt or innocence,” Cahill said. It was the second pretrial hearing for the officers, who were fired after Floyd’s May 25 death. Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with second-degree murder and other counts, while Thomas Lane, 37, J. Kueng, 26, and Tou Thao, 34, are charged with aiding and abetting Chauvin. Floyd died after Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee against the handcuffed 46-year-old Black man’s neck for nearly eight minutes. The officers were responding to a call about a man trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a nearby store. Floyd's death sparked protests around the world.

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Target, MTV blocked ads from news mentioning 'George Floyd' and 'protests'

Target Corp told a leading online news publisher not to run its ads in stories related to the Black Lives Matter movement. Articles mentioning police-brutality victims such as "Breonna Taylor" and "George Floyd" were off limits, as were those with the word "protests." Target and other advertisers that compiled similar "blocklists" say they were respecting the sensitivity of the issue and wanted to avoid the appearance of exploiting tragedies. News publishers say such moves effectively punish media companies for covering important issues, since they earn less money from content where ad-blocking is prevalent. Target is among many brands that have temporarily paused ad spending on Facebook Inc. after a public campaign by civil-rights groups that say the tech giant isn't doing enough to rein in hate speech on its platform.

MTV, the youth-oriented cable channel owned by ViacomCBS Inc., also avoided ad placements near articles about the protests and unrest. It asked the same leading publisher to avoid placing its ads in stories that mention words including "Breonna Taylor," "Ahmaud Aubery" [sic], "George Floyd," "Black Lives Matter," "protests," "racism," "hate" and "policing." An MTV spokeswoman said the cable network believes the keyword blocklist in question was for ads for the show "Revenge Prank." "Due to the comedic nature of the show...we didn't want to be insensitive by placing ads for it next to important and serious topics, such as Black Lives Matter," she said. "This is standard practice we use with our media agency to ensure that our ads don't come across as tone-deaf or disrespectful."

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Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson opens up on personal experiences with racism

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson did not want to talk about football during a video conference call with reporters Wednesday, saying "none of that matters" compared to "life and what the black community is going through right now." "When you think about the idea of Black Lives Matter, they do matter," Wilson said, speaking from his offseason home in Southern California. "The reality is that me as a black person, people are getting murdered on the street, people are getting shot down, and the understanding that it's not like that for every other race. It's like that in particular for the black community. I think about my stepson, I think about my daughter, I think about our new baby boy on the way, and it's staggering to watch these things happen right in front of our faces, so I have a heavy heart right now."

"Being black is a real thing in America," Wilson said. "It's a real thing in the sense of the history and the pain, even my own family personally." Wilson said his great-great grandparents were slaves and that he has always understood "that racism is real." He recalled how, while growing up in Richmond, Virginia, his father would warn him to not put his hands in his pockets when he stepped out of his car at gas stations.

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[Kefka]

Haha, it was a lie.

Can we bring this piece of shit back to life so we can kill him again like he deserves?

 

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[jack]

Yep. I don't quite get what's happened. cupcakeers think they've got a martyr. He was just another cupcakeer with a fake 20 and a knee on his neck

 

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George Floyd Cops Turn on Each Other, Request Separate Trials
Two of the ex-Minneapolis cops say they were only following orders. But alleged ringleader Derek Chauvin has, in turn, questioned why the others didn’t call paramedics sooner. All four officers have requested the trial move out of the Twin Cities area due to the excessive amount of publicity.

“If Kueng and Lane had chosen to de-escalate instead of struggle, Mr. Floyd may have survived.”

 

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Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter in death of George Floyd

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on charges of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. The jury of five men and seven women deliberated for four hours Monday afternoon and resumed deliberating Tuesday morning, according to the court. They were sequestered from the public during deliberations. Chauvin, 45, had pleded not guilty to second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The deliberations began after three weeks of testimony in one of the most closely watched cases of the Black Lives Mattr era. The prosecution's case against Chauvin featured 38 witnesses as they sought to show the former Minneapolis Police officer committed murder when he kneeled on the neck and back of Floyd, handcuffed and prone on the street, for 9 minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020. Six of the jurors are White, four are Black and two are multiracial, according to information released by the court.

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BLM: Update on George Floyd

 

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BLM: Update on George Floyd

^No need to read the entire thread: spammed by Venooker^

BLM: Update on George Floyd (page-6)

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Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of two murder counts, one manslaughter count in George Floyd verdict

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter by a jury Tuesday for his role in the murder of George Floyd last May outside of a local convenience store. The death of Floyd, who was Black, and the video that showed Chauvin, who is white, kneeling on Floyd's neck for about nine minutes, became a catalyst for the sports world's racial and social justice movement last summer. Chauvin faces a 40-year maximum sentence for the second-degree unintentional murder conviction, a 25-year sentence for third-degree murder and a 10-year sentence for second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin's bail was immediately revoked, and his sentencing will be in eight weeks.

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