27-year-old African-American fatally shot by Atlanta police Friday evening during a struggle in a drive-thru line, caught on camera forcing Police Chief Erika Shields to resign her position as Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms called for the officer who fired the fatal shots to be immediately fired.
The new fence erected in front of the White House to keep protesters away has been turned into a Black Lives Matter mural.
The bail of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged with murder in the killing of George Floyd two weeks ago, has been increased from $500,000 to $1.25 million on Monday afternoon.
Keke Palmer showed up for the nationwide protests against police brutality plaguing minorities in the United States in an impassioned speech citing to the National Guard about how President Trump has fanned the embers of racism. She then urged the uniformed men to march with them.
Six Atlanta police officers have been charged for violently assaulting two college students - Messiah Young, 22, and Teniyah Pilgrim, 20, who were leaving a #GeorgeFloyd protest Saturday. Two of the officers involved have already been fired from the department.
Twitter has taken down multiple accounts that it says were operated by a group white supremacists posing as liberal groups fueling violence.
Twitter said the white supremacist group Identity Evropa used one fake account, @Antifa_US, to call for violence in majority white suburbs, in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now that's very !low
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced Tuesday via twitter that the state's department of human rights to launch an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. The investigation will not only look into the murder of George Floyd but will review the department's practices and policies over the past decade.
Los Angeles police commander Cory Palka took a knee with #GeorgeFloyd protesters during demonstrations on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood Monday. George Floyd died after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes despite Floyd’s repeatedly saying "I can't breathe".
Louisville killer-cop involved in the fatal shooting death of David McAtee had earlier mocked a protester on Facebook it was shot by pepper balls.
In the wake of the worldwide protest triggered by the murder of unarmed African-American man George Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin, Caucasian celebrities from Pink to Reese Witherspoon have acknowledged their white privilege, to echo the voices of people of color and to educate their kids on how to behave better in fighting white supremacy and systemic racism in the U.S. and the world at large.
