A year after George Floyd’s murder, what’s changed in Washington state?
Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests fueled major actions on police accountability, tax reform and environmental justice. But no one thinks the work is done.
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Sakara Remmu, the lead strategist of the Washington Black Lives Matter Alliance, in Seattle on May 20, 2021. Remmu said several major pieces of legislation wouldn t have passed if it weren t for citizen advocacy and last year s Black Lives Matter protests. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
When George Floyd called for his mother with his dying breaths, the police officers holding him down didn’t seem to notice but the rest of the world heard him loud and clear.
In the shadow of George Floyd Square, the Minnesota Lynx remain steadfast in the fight for racial justice
From Philando Castile to George Floyd and Daunte Wright, Sylvia Fowles and the Minnesota Lynx have been at the physical epicenter of America s fight for racial justice.
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WITH A WIDE smile and a clap of her hands, Sylvia Fowles brings her Minnesota Lynx teammates together in a dark tunnel that leads to their home court at Target Center. Take care of each other; protect each other, Fowles says as music from the arena seeps into their huddle, the noise growing louder as the 2,000-some fans prepare to greet their long-gone team.
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Ex-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd on May 25, 2020.
Obama acknowledged continued police killings after Floyd but said there were reasons to hope.
Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday there were reasons to hope in a tweet that acknowledged the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, who last year was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. George Floyd was murdered one year ago today. Since then, hundreds more Americans have died in encounters with police parents, sons, daughters, friends taken from us far too soon, Obama wrote in a statement posted to Twitter, But the last year has also given us reasons to hope.
MINNEAPOLIS
As people gathered to remember George Floyd across the country from the Twin Cities to downtown Los Angeles, Houston and Washington D.C. they faced questions not only about social justice, but about how best to respond to a spike in crime in many major cities since his death.
At George Floyd Square in Minneapolis a few feet from where he was killed a year ago just as a day of remembrance was about to start at 10 a.m. Tuesday violence in this city was on full display: Shots rang out, sending scores of people scrambling for safety.
Stray bullets shattered a window and ripped into a tour bus as parents sprinted to find children who moments earlier had been playing nearby. Men threw themselves on the ground and ducked behind buildings. The gunfire could be heard several blocks away, where elderly bicyclists and pedestrians stopped on sunny sidewalks, wondering hopefully if the sound might be fireworks.