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George Floyd’s family lobbies Biden for U.S. police reform

George Floyd’s family lobbies Biden for U.S. police reform

JEFF MASON and NICK PFOSI A year after his killing unleashed a national reckoning over racial injustice, George Floyd's relatives met with President Joe Biden at the White House and with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge passage of police reform legislation in their loved one's name. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died in handcuffs with a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes, became the face of a national movement challenging police brutality and bias in the U.S. criminal justice system. His dying words, "I can't breathe," have echoed as a slogan in…
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After milestone police verdict, Minneapolis lays to rest another Black man

After milestone police verdict, Minneapolis lays to rest another Black man

NATHAN LAYNE TWO days after a Minneapolis jury found a white police officer guilty of murdering George Floyd, the city will lay to rest Daunte Wright, another Black man whose violent death has raised fresh concerns over the way police treat people of colour. The funeral for Wright, 20, who was shot by a white police officer in a Minneapolis suburb on April 11 after a routine traffic stop, will be attended by a number of high-profile civil rights activists as well as family and friends. The service is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. CDT (1:00 p.m. ET) at…
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