The Latest Breaking News from George Floyd

CHICAGO— El agente Mahir "Mike" Affaneh entró en pánico cuando escuchó a la alcaldesa de Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, declarar en octubre que los agentes podrían quedarse sin sueldo si se negaban a vacunarse.

Astarte Washington was injured as police responded to unrest in Roseland after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

An external review of Minnesota’s response to days of civil unrest following the May 2020 killing of George Floyd found several weaknesses, including a lack of clear leadership early on as businesses were being destroyed and set ablaze

PHILADELPHIA — Two years after freezing spending on police in response to the killing of George Floyd, Philadelphia City Council leaders are backing a plan that would steer millions in new funding to the department and add more officers.

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-delayed review of Chicago monuments still isn’t completed, but the mayor has restated her controversial pledge to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its prominent pedestal in Grant Park — the site of a bloody battle between police and demonstrators nearly two years ago.

CHICAGO — Officer Mahir “Mike” Affaneh panicked after he heard Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot make a statement in October that officers might have to go on a no-pay status if they refused to be vaccinated.

Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores of street protests organized by the social justice group that attracted hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the world.

As Joe Biden pushes to ‘fund the police’, data from Mapping Police Violence shows high rates of deaths at the hands of law enforcement persist

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva accused high-ranking members of his department Tuesday of attempting to cover up an incident in which a deputy kneeled on the head of a handcuffed inmate for more than three minutes.

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly two years after it was first proposed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, and almost a year since Philadelphia’s City Council approved legislation to create a new police oversight agency, the organization is finally poised to move past the planning phase and into reality.