Tag: George Floyd
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Uncle Ben’s: Racism forces popular rice brand to change identity
Mars, owners of Uncle Ben’s has revealed intentions to phase out the identity of the popular rice brand over harmful racial stereotypes. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mars made this known in a statement published on its website on Wednesday. Uncle Ben’s, a brand name for parboiled rice, and other related food products, was first introduced by…
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Twitter disables Trump’s campaign video on George Floyd
U.S. President Donald Trump is currently not having the best of time with his favourite social media platform, Twitter as the platform once again disabled the president’s campaign tribute video to George Floyd. The social media platform cited a copyright complaint, as basis for its action, reports Daily Mail. The clip, which is a collation…
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Kanye West initiates college fund for George Floyd’s daughter
According to Variety, a representative of West, who has been silent amid the global outrage, said the 42-year-old rapper has set up a college fund to cover tuition for the six-year-old girl. West, a father of four, also donated the sum of $2 million to charities associated with Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and…
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Photos: George Floyd memorial holds in Minneapolis, attendees observe 8 minutes, 46 seconds silence
Friends, families, and concerned individuals gathered at a private memorial service in Minneapolis to honor George Floyd on Thursday. Thousands also streamed the memorial service online to salute and grieve George Floyd – the unarmed black man who died after a white police officer pinned him to the ground and pressed his knee on his…
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Retired boxing champion, Mayweather offers to pay for George Floyd’s funeral services
Retired boxing champ Floyd Mayweather will pay for the funeral services for George Floyd, Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN on Monday. George Floyd died last week after a Minneapolis policeman knelt on the 46-year-old man’s neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd, who was handcuffed, became unresponsive after almost three minutes. The death of…
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Unrest grips dozens of U.S. cities as Police, protesters clash
Dozens of cities in the United States were seeing fiery clashes between the Police and protesters continue as the killing of George Floyd sparked massive unrest throughout the country. In Minneapolis, where the African-American man died in police custody earlier this week, thousands of national guard soldiers were patrolling the streets on Saturday night and…
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George Floyd: Trump threatens White House protesters with ‘vicious dogs, most ominous guns’
In multiple tweets, U.S. President Donald Trump warned #BlackLivesMatter protesters that they face ‘the most vicious dogs’ and ‘the most ominous guns’ if they breach the White House fence. He was reacting to the protest outside his official home on Friday night. Demonstrators protesting yet another white police brutality, after the killing of Minneapolis resident,…
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George Floyd’s horrifying death in Minneapolis, By Ehi Braimah
There is understandable global outrage just as anger reached boiling point in Minneapolis, a major city in Minnesota, USA, over the heart breaking death of 46 years old black American George Floyd recently. Floyd, a former professional football player, died as a result of the barbaric, vicious, wicked and heartless attack by Derek Chauvin, a…
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Just in: Officer who knelt on George Floyd finally taken into custody
Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington has announced that the arresting officer in the George Floyd case has been taken into custody. Former officer Derek Chauvin has been taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Floyd was pronounced dead Monday night after he was taken into custody by police in south…
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Trump’s altercation with Twitter assumes new dimension
Twitter on Friday flagged and hid a tweet made by U.S. President Donald Trump for allegedly glorifying violence, taking the altercation between the President and the microblogging platform to a different level. Trouble started recently after Twitter issued a fact check on some Trump’s tweets, marking the first time the U.S. President’s favoured social media…