Judeah Reynolds, a 10-year-old girl who witnessed the killing of George Floyd last year, said she is proud of the role she played in bringing a guilty verdict against his killer, Derek Chauvin. Speaking to Good Morning America, Reynolds said she watched the verdict on TV on Tuesday as the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty […]
Darnella Fraizer’s decision to stand up against injustice and record the harrowing final minutes of George Floyd’s life is being regarded as one of the most essential components of former police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction. On Tuesday, the jury in Chauvin’s trial reached a verdict and found him guilty of third-degree murder, second-degree unintentional […]
Courteney Ross, George Floyd‘s girlfriend, said she was familiar with Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by Minnesota police over the weekend. Ross told The Washington Post that Wright was a student while she was a dean at Edison High School. She described him as “a silly boy, as goofy as can be,” who required […]
The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead after trying to resuscitate him testified Monday that Floyd’s heart had stopped when he arrived. Dr. Bradford Langenfeld, who was a senior resident on duty that night at Hennepin County Medical Center, said that he was not told of any efforts at the scene by bystanders or […]
Courteney Ross, George Floyd‘s girlfriend, took the stand on Thursday in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial and spoke at length about their relationship as well as their struggles to overcome opioid addiction. Ross spoke at length about how the two managed their opioid addiction that resulted from physical injuries, like many others across the country. The […]
Charles McMillian, a witness to the killing of George Floyd, cried heavily on Wednesday during the trial of Derek Chauvin. The court was forced to go into recess after McMillian broke down as the video showed Floyd struggling to breathe and calling out for his mother while Chauvin and the other officers violently held him down, […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial. Council members met privately to discuss the settlement, then returned to public session for […]
The city council of Minneapolis has voted unanimously to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of George Floyd for $27 million, according to The New York Times. Floyd’s death, which came after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, sparked global outrage and protests that lasted for months, […]