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**RIP George Floyd [10/14/1973 - 5/25/2020]**

Experts: George Floyd died from knee to neck, not drug overdose​


The county medical examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death a homicide due to “cardiopulmonary arrest,” not an overdose, even though he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Medical experts at the murder trial for one of the former police officers involved also testified Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck, not from drug use. A jury unanimously agreed, finding the former officer guilty of murder and manslaughter. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death a homicide due to “cardiopulmonary arrest” from “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”

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Experts: George Floyd died from knee to neck, not drug overdose​


The county medical examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death a homicide due to “cardiopulmonary arrest,” not an overdose, even though he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Medical experts at the murder trial for one of the former police officers involved also testified Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck, not from drug use. A jury unanimously agreed, finding the former officer guilty of murder and manslaughter. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death a homicide due to “cardiopulmonary arrest” from “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”

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George Floyd mural vandalized twice in a week, art collective speaks out​


The George Floyd mural in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood has been defaced twice this week. This portrait of George Floyd has lived at the corner of Holton and North since June 2020. The mural's curator says it has never been vandalized before, until this week. "For two years, people have loved it and not touched it," said Samuel Alford with Art-I-Culture Collective, the team of artists behind the mural. Vandalism was first spotted Tuesday, with a splash of gray paint across Floyd's face, which the main artist quickly repainted. On Friday morning, there was more vandalism, including red spray paint and a white sticker that read, "WHITE PRIVILEGE DOESN'T EXIST - John 3:16." "Cowards have patterns, and honestly I'm not surprised. I kind of thought this would happen again," Alford said. "It's an act of weakness, whoever's doing it." Alford thinks it could be related to recent disparaging comments about Floyd by rapper Kanye West.

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Kanye West "Apologizes" For Spreading Lies About George Floyd's Death​


Friday night (Oct. 28) the paparazzi caught up with Kanye West who offered what the media is calling “an apology” for comments he made in reference to George Floyd. If you recall, West recently declared that Floyd died from fentanyl, and not due to homicide under the knee of Derek Chauvin. “When I see that video as a Black person, it hurts my feelings,” West said. “And I know that police do attack [sic] and that America is generally racist. And I understand that when we got to say Black Lives Matter, the idea of it made us feel good together as a people. Now, afterwards there was some things where the money went in order to push us to the Democratic vote.”

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Keith Ellison, Who Locked Up George Floyd’s Killers, Wins Reelection​


Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) participates in a debate with Republican challenger Jim Schultz on Oct. 14 in St. Paul. (Photo: Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Associated Press) In a critical victory for progressives, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) won a second term as the state’s top law enforcement official on Tuesday, beating back an energetic Republican challenger who accused him of responding inadequately to an uptick in crime.
The outcome solidifies Ellison’s place in the national political firmament after his prosecution of the Minneapolis police officers who killed George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on May 25, 2020, made him a household name. It also preserves the Democratic Party’s control of the office of Minnesota’s attorney general, which has continued uninterrupted since 1971.

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His Name Is George Floyd​


Building on the Washington Post's coverage of the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 and the months of protests that followed, reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa trace Floyd’s life before the world knew his name. Floyd grew up Black in an America of segregated schools and overpoliced communities, came of age amid the era of mass incarceration, and was killed by a white police officer. What was his life like? Through hundreds of interviews and a close examination of the historical context that laid the foundation for Floyd’s life, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice attempts to answer that question. The resulting text—deeply reported, expansive, and empathetic—gives readers a clearer understanding of a man who tried, against the steep odds of systemic racism, to lead a full, peaceful life in America. —Mahita Gajanan.

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Derek Chauvin Tries To Escape Prison Sentence For Killing George Floyd With Appeal Set For January​

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According to court documents obtained by AllHipHop, Derek Chauvin listed several reasons why he believed his trial was unfair. His lawyers claimed the “pretrial publicity coupled with threats of violence poisoned the jury.” Attorneys argued the size of the jury pool didn’t mitigate issues regarding prejudice against Derek Chauvin. They suggested there wasn’t a proper “cooling period” and complained about media coverage. “The overwhelming media coverage had exposed the jurors—literally every day—to news demonizing Chauvin and glorifying Floyd was more than sufficient to presume prejudice in the Hennepin County community,” lawyers wrote. “This was not objective factual coverage. That publicity highlighted the unique pressures by the physical proximity to the events, the responding protests, and property destruction in Hennepin County.”​


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12 Injured At George Floyd Protests Will Receive $600,000 From City​


The city of Minneapolis and the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota reached a $600,000 settlement for a lawsuit brought on behalf of 12 protesters injured during demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 at the hands of police. The lawsuit alleged Minneapolis police used unnecessary and excessive force to suppress demonstrators’ First Amendment rights by tear-gassing protesters and shooting them with foam and rubber bullets, sometimes firing with no warning, an ACLU news release said. The settlement was accepted Wednesday by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, which entered an injunction, bringing the lawsuit to an end, according to the ACLU. The agreement prevents the city from arresting; threatening to arrest; or using physical force such as chemical agents, grenades or foam-tipped bullets against lawful demonstrators, the news release said. The injunction also limits police's use of chemical agents to disperse peaceful protests and requires officers at demonstrations have their body cameras recording and unobstructed, according to the ACLU.

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Former Minneapolis Officer J. Alexander Kueng sentenced for aiding George Floyd's killing​


One of the ex-officers already imprisoned for his role in helping to hold down George Floyd as he pleaded for his life in a south Minneapolis street two years ago received a 3 1/2-year state sentence Friday. J. Alexander Kueng appeared from a federal prison in Ohio for a 15-minute virtual hearing when Judge Peter Cahill announced his agreed-upon sentence of 3 1/2 years for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Kueng's state sentence will be served concurrently with the three-year federal sentence he's serving for violating Floyd's civil rights. "Kueng was not simply a bystander in what happened that day," he said. "In fact, he did less than some of the bystanders tried to do to help with Mr. Floyd. "Frank said that Floyd's family and friends are trying to move on with healing, but that's difficult to do with ongoing court proceedings. He said prosecution has focused on the conduct of officers in causing Floyd's death, not an "examination on policing in general."

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How an unjustified arrest exposed glaring failures in CPD’s response to unrest that followed George Floyd’s killing​


The Civilian Office of Police Accountability found that officers may have included false or misleading information in hundreds of arrest reports during demonstrations at the end of May 2020.


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Protesters square off with Chicago police at Kinzie and State streets May 30, 2020, during a protest of George Floyd’s murder.
 

Former Minneapolis police officer charged with assaulting a man during 2020 protests after death of George Floyd​


A former Minneapolis police officer is charged with assaulting a man during nighttime civil unrest following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, according to a complaint filed Wednesday. Former officer Justin Stetson is accused of repeatedly punching, kicking and kneeing Jaleel Stallings in the head and face after the man was already lying down on the ground with his hands on the pavement, according to the complaint. The blows left Stallings with “substantial bodily harm,” including a fractured eye socket, the document states. The encounter between Stetson and Stallings happened on May 30, 2020, just five days after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck during an arrest. Floyd’s death became the catalyst for nationwide demonstrations against police brutality, some of which resulted in violent clashes between protesters and police.

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George Floyd’s Murder Witness Sues Minneapolis Over Officers’ Actions; Cites Assault And Emotional Distress​


Donald Williams, one of the bystanders who witnessed George Floyd’s murder at the hand of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging assault and emotional distress from the
high-profile incident. The Associated Press reported that Williams filed the complaint on Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court. He stated Chauvin reportedly threatened him and other bystanders at the scene with a can of mace, shaking it as he kneeled on Floyd’s neck on May 25, 2020.

In the suit, Williams said he was concerned for Floyd’s safety after Chauvin remained on his neck for some time. He then alleged Chauvin and another former officer, Tou Thao, taunted Floyd, Williams and other witnesses who expressed their concerns, and Thao put his hand on Williams’ chest.

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FBI Searched Jan. 6 Rioters and George Floyd Demonstrators in Spy Database​


The Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly searched a trove of intelligence gathered through a foreign spying law for information on people suspected of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capital and the George Floyd protests, a court opinion released Friday showed.

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