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Demonstrators clogged city parks and streets for weeks. What came later is complicated.
Terrence Floyd, who lives in Bed-Stuy, reflects on his brother’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer five years later.
The Westchester County executive said George Floyd's killing galvanized Black voters.
The appointments, announced this week, include that of a longtime police reformer.
Chelsea Miller, co-founder of Freedom March NYC, joins WNYC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the Apollo Theater on Sunday.
Lawmakers and civil liberties advocates say increased oversight of the NYPD is needed as the city’s police watchdog reaches its statute of limitation on all cases of alleged police misconduct arising from the 2020 racial-justice protests.
The CCRB faces a statute of limitations deadline of May 4th for civilian complaints over the NYPD’s response to the 2020 protests in New York City. Staff members say it’s struggled to fully investigate allegations, both because of a lack of cooperation from the police department and mistakes made within the oversight agency.
Video of the incident had dominated news coverage of the demonstrations.
The Brooklyn lawyers face up to 10 years in prison.
Someone splattered paint on the sculpture on Sunday morning around 10 a.m., the third day the sculpture was on display in Union Square.