Tag: Minneapolis
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Minneapolis police department to be dismantled, says City Council boss
Lisa Bender, president of the Minneapolis council has promised to dismantle the city’s police. “We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe,” she told CNN. The decision was endorsed by nine…
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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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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…