How George Floyd s death reignited a worldwide movement
The trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin starts Monday over death of George Floyd, which sparked an international outcry. With so many fatal police shootings, why did this slaying lead to global protests?
The death of George Floyd saw many Western nations forced to reckon with their colonial past
For eight minutes and 46 seconds, police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, on a street in Minneapolis on May 25 last year. Another officer, Alexander Kueng, had his knees on Floyd s upper legs whille their colleague J. Thomas Lane gripped Floyd s handcuffed arms.
CHICAGO Over the summer, photographer Vashon Jordan, Jr. attended marches, demonstrations and protests to take thousands of photos and show what the Black Lives Matter movement looks like through his lens. The year of 2020 was one like no other. I photographed looting but I also photographed positive events, Jordan said. I photographed Trump rallies, police rallies, everything that was going on I made sure I gave them equal coverage and I showed everyone. There are moments out here where I captured things that no news cameras captured. Black history and the Black experience is magical, and I wanted to make sure that that was held longer than a news cycle.
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Ms Donelan suggested books were being removed from reading lists in universities in a bid to prevent students being forced to confront hate speech . The Tory MP argued the issue is on removing elements of history instead of adding alternative viewpoints.
18 hours. That s all it took Tiana Day to go from a bystander to one of the leading voices of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Tiana was only 17 when she volunteered on a Friday in June to lead a march across the Golden Gate Bridge the very next day. She expected a few dozen people, instead, thousands showed up. When I was marching I just felt a mass amount of empowerment, she recalled. Everyone s voice in this movement matters.
It was a moment of uprising that has been repeating itself since California s founding - from the Bear Flag Rebellion in 1846 to the free speech movement of the 1960s. California is where the fight for civil rights has led to groups like the Black Panthers and the United Farm Workers.
Chesapeake man pleads guilty to driving truck through Oceanfront protest crowd
Virginia Beach Police Department
and last updated 2021-02-18 12:12:00-05
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A Chesapeake man accused of driving a truck through a crowd of protesters in Virginia Beach pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Emanuel William Wilder, 20, was charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, abusive language and reckless driving after a May 31 incident in which he was caught on video speeding through a crowd at the Oceanfront.
In the 25-second clip, a shirtless white male is seen in a disputation with people in the first half of the video. In the second half of the video, the same man is shown driving the truck down the street while people rushed to safety.