The Latest Breaking News from George Floyd

Chauvin has filed a motion to have his conviction overturned

The judge overseeing the federal civil rights cases of four former Minneapolis police officers in the killing of George Floyd has accepted the terms of Derek Chauvin’s plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years in prison

Simply depicting the events that led to the death of a former marine leaves audiences to draw their own parallels with the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

Trump made statements condoning and encouraging violence throughout his presidency.

‘Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?’ Mr Trump asked, according to former secretary of defense Mark Esper

Between late June and mid-July 2020, Pilon left five nooses with handwritten notes in different areas

Jeneal Hobbs can rattle off the stories her children tell her about their days in the Pennridge School District: the white student holding cotton and yelling in the hallway, “Hey everyone, I’m Black.” A school bus accident in which the police were called and a white child told one of…

‘You gotta sit here and listen to this because I think the president of the United States is having a nervous breakdown or something, and it’s scary’

I spent the 2020 spring break week setting up to teach my college courses online while helping to care for my 14-month-old grandchild, whose daycare had closed. At the same time, I couldn’t help thinking, being the sociologist I am, of the devastating consequences of COVID-19 I saw for women…

The case is currently being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is prosecuting the case.

Among the scathing findings of an investigation launched after the police killing of George Floyd is that the Minneapolis Police Department used covert or fake social media accounts to target Black activists and organizations