Tag: George Floyd

Judge cites safety concerns in Derek Chauvin decision.

Floyd’s murder, along with the murders of other Black victims of police brutality, sparked a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Several Prosecutors Disqualified From Participating In George Floyd Case

We talk about the march and some of the other stories impacting African-Americans this week.

Prosecutors depict ex-officer as complicit in Floyd’s death

Ex-cop’s video captures crowd’s horror during Floyd arrest

Officer Garrett Rolfe is suing the city of Atlanta for wrongful termination and demands to be fully reinstated with back pay.

The video could also show what Chauvin was saying and doing, and how much Lane and Kueng saw. It could also dispel some discrepancies in the two transcripts that Walker, the media attorney, said raise questions about their accuracy.

“It just moved me to create music around his vocal,” said Dem Jointz, who produced music for the song and then contacted the family to share his version with them. “It was so much energy coming from the video alone, it was just easy for me to produce around that.”

A separate $6.5 million fund has been established for its network of 16 affiliate chapters.