Former Minneapolis police officer pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd’s death
A former police officer of Minneapolis, in the US state of Minnesota, pleaded guilty to manslaughter allegedly in the death of George Floyd.
A former police officer of Minneapolis, in the US state of Minnesota, pleaded guilty to manslaughter allegedly in the death of George Floyd.
The death of an elderly activist raises many questions about the knee-jerk reactions of our investigating agencies, lack of application of mind of prison authorities and limitations of our criminal justice system. How Indian democracy responds after the tragic death of the elderly undertrial is yet to be seen. If we fail, the tragedy of Stan Swamy will haunt us for many years
Floyd (46), was killed in a brutal abuse of police force on May 25 last year during an arrest after a store clerk alleged, he had passed a counterfeit USD 20 bill in Minneapolis.
It is an index to the enormity of that tragedy that Robert Aaron Long (21), the man who went on the rampage at three spas in the Atlanta area, has been charged with eight counts of murder in connection with the attacks.
Public anger was reignited after Blake was shot seven times by a white police officer in Kenosha city, leading to consecutive days of protests and violence.
There have been Black Lives Matter demonstrations in cities across the United Kingdom and Europe since the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in the United States on May 25.
And the IOC would have you believe there wasn’t any whiff of politics in this. But these are but superficial matters when the history of the IOC ~ and that of the Olympics ~ is gone back to.
Donald Trump has bitten more than he can chew in reaping the benefits of divide, and the protesting mobs are not just composed of blacks but include people of different shades of colour, ethnicity, diversity and religion as they finally see the crumbling of the constitutional dream of the United States. The ongoing unrest in America is the inevitable price paid by societies that diminish some of their own at the altar of electoral prospects.
The massive protests comes as the US faces a historic reckoning on systemic racism, with mass civil unrest ignited by the May 25 killing of another African American man, George Floyd, while in police custody.
According to media reports, on Saturday demonstrators blocked an interstate highway and set alight the Wendy's restaurant where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was killed.
