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During the summer of 2020, the United States was engulfed in widespread protests that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets in the wake of the racist public lynching of 46-year-old George Floyd. Minneapolis police murdered Floyd on May 25 of that year. . . . Continue reading Black Lives Matter! Immigrant Lives Matter! at Workers.org
Four years since George Floyd tragedy, police brutality in US continues unchecked
When a group of Minneapolis police officers tried to arrest George Floyd - a petty criminal who turned out to be overdosing on fentanyl - for passing a fake $20 bill on May 25, 2020, they had no idea they would set the US on fire.
Los Angeles Times
UpstractLAPD chief defends police tactics during protests: 'Swift and measured action'
The Police Department has faced harsh criticism that its officers responded to attacks from a small group of agitators by using force against the larger crowd of protesters.
LA Daily News
San Gabriel Valley TribuneLA police chief defends officers’ response to weeks of protests
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell on Monday defended his agency’s handling of the recent immigration-enforcement protests, which sparked some allegations of excessive force and indiscriminate use of non-lethal weaponry and tear gas, with the chief saying suggestions the response was undisciplined or lacked oversight are “simply not accurate.” In a lengthy written statement, McDonnell said he felt compelled to respond to recent…
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