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SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 — Facebook Inc and Snap Inc became the latest US companies condemning racial inequality in the United States as violent protests flared up across major cities over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. The...

Monday, 01 Jun 2020 11:42 PM MYT

The two tech companies stood with Intel Corp, Netflix Inc, Alphabet’s Google, International Business Machines Corp and Nike Inc in taking a public stance against Floyd’s death — calling out discrimination against African-Americans. Floyd’s death caused yet another round of outrage across the US on the treatment of African-Americans by police officers, polarising the country politically and racially as states begin to ease lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

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