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Gianna, that her father’s killing left a positive mark on the nation.
A grassroots movement had gained traction. Jurors convicted a white Minneapolis police officer of killing Floyd. Lawmakers in both parties vowed to enact reforms to try to halt more deaths of Black men stopped and confronted by law enforcement officers.
“She said to me, and I’ll never forget it, ‘Daddy changed the world,’” the president said just weeks ago.
“I told her this afternoon, ‘Daddy did change the world.’ … Let that be his legacy” (NBC’s “Today”).
A year after Floyd was killed, the president today will meet privately in the Oval Office with Floyd’s relatives following months of entreaties to the nation and Congress to take action to deliver change. But as The Hill’s Marty Johnson reports, aspirations for racial equality and reforms inside U.S. police departments are proving difficult to deliver.