All posts tagged "George Floyd"

Thousands of people were demanding that Netflix donate proceeds from a recent comedy event to George Floyd's family after MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a "racist and cruel joke" about Floyd's murder, according to a report from The Daily Beast on Friday.

Hinchcliffe was among several comedians performing at the streaming giant's "Roast of Kevin Hart" special when he told Hart the following: “The Black community is so proud of you…right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can’t breathe.”

Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, when Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, put his knee on Floyd's neck while Floyd said, "I can't breathe." ...

Police chiefs have growing concerns that ICE could be setting back nearly half a decade of building public trust in communities.

That "fragile trust" has taken years to build following the killing of George Floyd and a number of public police brutality incidents in the U.S. and now local authorities have reported receiving "endless complaints" over ICE agents' behavior, including traffic stops of off-duty police officers and city employees based on their skin color, according to a New York Times report published Friday.

The killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, dragging a man in his underwear out of his home in freezing weather and arresting 5-year-old Liam Ramos has only added to that rapid shift and changed how the public views law enforcement — something that has taken years for police departments to overcome. ...

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire claimed Thursday that what Defense secretary Pete Hegseth didn't say during a testy exchange with Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) told him everything he needed to know.

Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday where he sparred with Slotkin when she asked if he has given the order for the military to shoot unarmed protesters.

The question came in the wake of President Donald Trump federalizing National Guard troops and sending active-duty Marines to quell the deportation protests in Los Angeles....

Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has been stabbed in federal prison, according to a source for the Associated Press.

No other details are currently known about Chauvin's condition or the precipitating events.

Chauvin killed George Floyd during a stop over alleged counterfeit money in Minneapolis, after kneeling on his neck for nine minutes while Floyd struggled and gasped for help....

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin’s appeal in his conviction in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. Chauvin had asked the nation’s high court to hear his case after the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to do so earlier this year. Prior to that, the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld his conviction. The justices did not issue comments or explanation with the rejection. Chauvin was convicted and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison in 2021. He pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations in 2021 and was given an additional sentence a year later.......

A conservative school board in suburban St. Louis voted Thursday night to revoke an anti-racism resolution passed in the wake of 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

The 5-2 vote by the Francis Howell School Board will require the removal from school hallways of a resolution that calls racism “a crisis that negatively impacts our students, our families, our community, and our staff,” the report said.

Here’s the rest of the resolution that has now been officially rescinded:...