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In tears, Courtney Ross told a courtroom in Minnesota that her relationship with boyfriend George Floyd involved a “classic story” of addiction to opioids.
“Addiction, in my opinion, is a lifelong struggle and something that we dealt with every day,” she said during the fourth day of the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, a now-former Minneapolis Police Department officer charged with murdering Mr Floyd, whose death galvanised an international movement for justice for the killings of Black Americans by police.
Her remarks – among several emotional testimonies that underscored the powerlessness and distress felt by many Americans who have experienced police violence – has also revived national coverage of a crisis that has killed more than 800,000 Americans over two decades.
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