Family demands murder charges after police killing of African American

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MINNEAPOLIS: The family of an African American man killed by Minneapolis police while handcuffed in custody demanded on Wednesday (May 27) that ...

"I would like those officers to be charged with murder, because that's exactly what they did," she said on NBC television.Advertisement

Protesters gather at the scene where George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "For five minutes, we watched as a white officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man," Frey added.Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who was retained by Floyd's family, said the case showed the US justice system treats blacks differently from whites.

Crump pointed out that the arrest involved a minor, non-violent crime, and there was no sign, as police initially claimed, that Floyd resisted arrest."That has to be the tipping point. Everybody deserves justice ... We can't have two justice systems, one for blacks and one for whites." "It's a tragic reminder that this was not an isolated incident, but part of an engrained systemic cycle of injustice that still exists in this country," Biden said in remarks streamed on video.

 

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