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‘I can’t breathe’: How Manuel Ellis was killed by police

Three months before George Floyd was killed by US police, another Black man spoke his final words: ‘I can’t breathe.’

Al Jazeera

How George Floyd's horror murder two years ago sparked protests around the world

White Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd's neck for nine minutes while he was handcuffed in an arrest over the alleged use of a counterfeit note

Daily Mirror

Two years after George Floyd's murder, Minneapolis' efforts to transform safety remain unfinished

MINNEAPOLIS — Damarra Atkins remembers vividly what it felt like to watch George Floyd's murder for the first time.

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George Floyd two years on: some accountability but killings go on

Minneapolis officers prosecuted, local reforms adopted in some states, but national overhaul of policing falls short.

Al Jazeera

What would George Floyd’s life have looked like without the crushing weight of racism?

Two years on from his death, it’s worth considering the success he might have had in a different world, say writers Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

The Guardian - UK

White solidarity doesn’t last much longer than the flowers left as memorials to Black lives

Two years ago, George Floyd was murdered. I remember the outpouring of grief. But apparently ‘healing’ is synonymous with forgetting

The Guardian - US

Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of George Floyd's death - Roll Call

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon aimed at putting new limits on federal law enforcement.

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‘Guilty as charged’: top UK officer urges police chiefs to admit institutional racism

Met’s Neil Basu says ‘positive discrimination’ should be used to increase minority ethnic representation in ranks

The Guardian - UK

George Floyd’s murder should have been a watershed, but Britain has learned nothing

Black Americans fleeing the racist violence symbolised by events two years ago have not found a sanctuary in the UK, says writer and broadcaster Afua Hirsch

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of Floyd's death

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing Wednesday, the second anniversary of George Floyd's death

The Independent UK

Vigil, rally planned for 2nd anniversary of Floyd killing

A candlelight vigil to honor George Floyd’s memory at the intersection where he died was among the remembrances scheduled for the second anniversary of the Black man’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers

The Independent UK

British photographer’s campaign to mark anniversary of George Floyd’s death

Cephas Williams’ 929 campaign, featured on billboards around London, will pay tribute to Mr Floyd.

The Independent UK

Biden has a new executive order on policing, 2 years after George Floyd was killed

The order will be signed Wednesday, the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd while in police custody. But it only applies to federal law enforcement — not local forces

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The Conversation

Public police are a greedy institution

The ongoing calls from communities to defund public police, that grew louder following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, have raised several crucial questions.

Tribune News Service

Biden to sign policing order two years after George Floyd’s death

President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to revise use-of-force policies for federal law enforcement on Wednesday’s two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

The National (Scotland)

Sheku Bayoh inquiry becomes focal point for Black Lives Matter protest

“From Minnesota to Kirkcaldy, Black Lives Matter!” was the chant outside the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry at Capital House in Edinburgh this morning.

The Independent UK

Biden signs policing executive order to mark George Floyd murder anniversary

Biden vows to continue working with Congress to pass ’meaningful police reform legislation’

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Sheku Bayoh arresting officer 'overwhelmed with terror' after being hit on head, inquiry told

A former police officer ran from Sheku Bayoh after being “overwhelmed by terror” before falling to the ground after receiving a blow to the…

Daily Record

Ex-cop tells Sheku Bayoh inquiry she ran after being 'overwhelmed by terror'

Nicole Short was one of the officers responding to 999 calls that Mr Bayoh was carrying a knife in Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife in May 2015.

The Independent UK

Sheku Bayoh inquiry: Ex-officer says she ran after being ‘overwhelmed by terror’

Former police officer Nicole Short said she felt ‘fearful’ and ‘scared’ when she arrived at the scene of the confrontation with Sheku Bayoh.

The Independent UK

Sheku Bayoh inquiry: We are in this for the long haul, says family lawyer

Protesters took the knee outside Capital House in Edinburgh as the family of Mr Bayoh arrived to hear evidence from the police officers involved.

Salon

Tucker Carlson's unlikely defender

Pulitzer-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald is now helping launder Tucker Carlson's white supremacist rhetoric

WEKU

Atlanta officers won't face charges from 2020 arrest of 2 college students

On bodycam footage, officers are shown confronting two young Black adults, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, after the pair were out past curfew following protests over George Floyd's death.

The Independent UK

San Francisco mayor boycotts Pride Parade over ban on uniformed officers marching

Cities around country have reckoned with what, if any, police presence should be at Pride

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