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Black Lives Matter activists, faith leaders discuss what has and hasn't happened since a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd two years ago. ....
Toledoans who protested in wake of George Floyd s murder react to Derek Chauvin s conviction Members of the Community Solidarity Response Network, who organized demonstrations across Toledo throughout the summer, say the verdict shows protests can work. Author: Emma Henderson Updated: 1:51 AM EDT April 21, 2021 TOLEDO, Ohio We ve seen protests and demonstrations across the country and right here in northwest Ohio following the murder of George Floyd. WTOL 11 reporter Emma Henderson spoke with the Community Solidarity Response Network (CSRN) to see what it means to them now that a jury declared a guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin. This was a day that most Black people did not expect, CSRN member Ruth Leonard said. ....
Keller wasn t the only one who said they witnessed the officer striking his helmet on the man s head. Hiller said she had seen the young Black man standing up to anyone trying to throw objects at police. Then, she described seeing about eight officers behind him while another officer ran up and bum-rushed him, grabbing him by the elbows and shoving them down. She added that she saw one of the officers punch him in the face before the man was struck with the helmet. We were all screaming at them (officers) and trying to pull them out, but they started shooting rubber bullets at us. So anybody who was trying to pull it out and get him free got hit, and had to run, she said. I watched him be arrested and put into a patrol car and he had literally done nothing. He was trying to protect the police and he was standing, breathing just the way we are right now. ....
Wow, I didn t realize it was so cold, she says. She turns and heads slowly down the sidewalk, being careful not to slip on the dusting of snow covering her path. Her left leg doesn t move as easily as her right. Pratt has a discernible limp, caused partly by the steel rod in her tibia but also because nerve damage makes it difficult to feel her toes. She has been healing for six months, ever since a wooden projectile fired by a Toledo police officer shattered her leg as she was holding a sign in front of The Attic at the corner of Adams and 17th Street. ....