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The Latest Breaking News from George Floyd

The ongoing calls from communities to defund public police, that grew louder following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, have raised several crucial questions.

The Conversation

Biden to sign policing order two years after George Floyd’s death

President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to revise use-of-force policies for federal law enforcement on Wednesday’s two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Tribune News Service

Sheku Bayoh inquiry becomes focal point for Black Lives Matter protest

“From Minnesota to Kirkcaldy, Black Lives Matter!” was the chant outside the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry at Capital House in Edinburgh this morning.

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Biden signs policing executive order to mark George Floyd murder anniversary

Biden vows to continue working with Congress to pass ’meaningful police reform legislation’

The Independent UK

Sheku Bayoh arresting officer 'overwhelmed with terror' after being hit on head, inquiry told

A former police officer ran from Sheku Bayoh after being “overwhelmed by terror” before falling to the ground after receiving a blow to the…

The National (Scotland)

Ex-cop tells Sheku Bayoh inquiry she ran after being 'overwhelmed by terror'

Nicole Short was one of the officers responding to 999 calls that Mr Bayoh was carrying a knife in Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife in May 2015.

Daily Record

Sheku Bayoh inquiry: Ex-officer says she ran after being ‘overwhelmed by terror’

Former police officer Nicole Short said she felt ‘fearful’ and ‘scared’ when she arrived at the scene of the confrontation with Sheku Bayoh.

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Sheku Bayoh inquiry: We are in this for the long haul, says family lawyer

Protesters took the knee outside Capital House in Edinburgh as the family of Mr Bayoh arrived to hear evidence from the police officers involved.

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson's unlikely defender

Pulitzer-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald is now helping launder Tucker Carlson's white supremacist rhetoric

Salon

Atlanta officers won't face charges from 2020 arrest of 2 college students

On bodycam footage, officers are shown confronting two young Black adults, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, after the pair were out past curfew following protests over George Floyd's death.

WEKU

San Francisco mayor boycotts Pride Parade over ban on uniformed officers marching

Cities around country have reckoned with what, if any, police presence should be at Pride

The Independent UK

‘This is a generational moment’: civil rights group for black Britons launches

Black Equity Organisation, whose trustees include David Lammy and Dame Vivian Hunt, aims to dismantle systemic racism in UK

The Guardian - UK

UK’s first national black British civil-rights group launched

The launch coincides with the second anniversary of the murder in the US of George Floyd.

The Independent UK

UK’s first national Black civil rights organisation launched by cross-section of influential figures

A national and independent civil rights group, founded by some of the most influential Black people in the country, has been set up to advance justice for Britain’s Black communities.

The Independent UK

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Inverse

On TikTok, Black therapists shine a light on mental health — and each other

Mental health professionals have soared in popularity on TikTok

The Guardian - UK

His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa review – the murder that shamed the US

A welcome humanising of Floyd might have benefited from a wider focus, including Black women’s experiences of racism and a global perspective

The Guardian - UK

Trump isn’t out there with a gun, but he’s enabled this war against black people

White supremacy is as American as apple pie, as the latest killings in Buffalo show, says the US philosopher and civil rights activist

The Guardian - UK

Police chiefs to apologise for ‘racism, discrimination and bias’ in race plan

New 50-page plan will avoid admitting institutional racism which critics say could doom promised reforms

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Biden takes action on baby formula shortage

US president authorized defense department to use commercial aircraft to fly formula supplies from overseas

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Black Lives Matter is a good cause. Gross financial mismanagement is not

A closer inspection of the nonprofit tax form filed by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation reveals even more unseemly details about the group’s financial mismanagement than previously known. The group came under initial scrutiny after New York Magazine reported that the organization had secretly purchased a $6 million…

The Independent UK

Spy agencies urged to fix open secret: a lack of diversity

The national reckoning over racial inequality sparked by George Floyd’s murder two years ago has gone on behind closed doors inside America’s intelligence agencies

Tribune News Service

Ex-Minnepolis Officer Thomas Lane pleads guilty to manslaughter charge for role in George Floyd's murder

MINNEAPOLIS — Ex-Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane pleaded guilty Wednesday to aiding and abetting manslaughter in the murder of George Floyd two years ago on a south Minneapolis street, avoiding a trial next month in Hennepin County District Court.

Tribune News Service

Raleigh reaches settlement with teen detained in 2020 George Floyd protests for arrest

RALEIGH, N.C. — The city of Raleigh will pay $37,500 to a woman who alleged her civil rights were violated by a Raleigh police officer almost two years ago when she was wrongfully arrested at a downtown Black Lives Matter protest.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Minneapolis police officer pleads guilty in George Floyd case

By entering the plea, Thomas Lane avoided the more serious charge of aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

AFP

Ex-police officer pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd death

Minneapolis (AFP) - One of three former Minneapolis police officers facing trial for the death of George Floyd pleaded guilty on Wednesday to manslaughter charges.

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