Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in George Floyd case

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[MINNEAPOLIS] The white Minneapolis policeman who pinned an unarmed black man with a knee to the neck before the man later died was arrested and charged with murder, a prosecutor said on Friday, after three nights of violent protests rocked the Midwestern city. Read more at The Business Times.

Chauvin and three fellow officers at the scene were fired on Tuesday from the police department of Minneapolis, a city of 425,000 people in Hennepin County. The city identified the other officers as Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng.

Mr Floyd's death is the latest killing to galvanise the nation's thinking about policing of racial minorities, and was eerily reminiscent of the 2014 killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man in New York City, who died after being put in a police chokehold and telling the officers,"I can't breathe."

"George's murder was just the last straw," Mr Griffin told Reuters, calling the charges against Chauvin a step in the right direction."We need to change systemic issues with the police force."

 

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