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Floyd family lawyer calls for all police officers present at his killing to be charged
The lawyer for George Floyd’s family has called for all of the police officers who were present at his killing to be charged.
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Trump praises ‘overwhelming force’ to restore order
President Trump visited the Saint John Paul II shrine in Washington DC today after threatening to deploy the military to quash a week of unrest and protests over the death of George Floyd.
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‘People are hurting and we need our government to be accountable’ – Representative Charles Booker
Joining me is Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Kentucky House Representative Charles Booker.
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Unrest in US cities provides sobering history lesson
The pictures we are seeing are America in 2020. But they are also America 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
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Trump calls for crackdown as disorder spreads across US after George Floyd death
Donald Trump has insisted that state governors must crack down harder and “dominate and arrest” protestors to regain control of the demonstrations engulfing cities across the US.
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10m
George Floyd protests spread across the world
America has ‘reached boiling point’. Those are the words of the people on the streets of Minneapolis protesting the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.
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George Floyd death has triggered ‘release of decades worth of frustrations’ – Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart
Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart speaks to Matt Frei from Washington DC.
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America ablaze as George Floyd protests spread across the country
A teenager has been killed and dozens of protesters have been arrested.
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NAACP division boss on the Floyd protests
Tiffany Loftin is the Director of the Youth College Division of the NAACP which is an American civil rights organisation. She speaks to Channel News from Washington.
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Ending the shut down in Virginia, USA
All of America’s 50 states are lifting lockdown restrictions – but many public health officials are warning that it is too soon.
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‘Trump confusing everybody about what America stands for and what our role is’ – Madeleine Albright
We’re joined from Washington DC by Madeleine Albright – who was US Secretary of State during President Clinton’s time in office – and the first woman to have that role.
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‘Tackle this systemic, deep-rooted racism in our institutions’ – former US prosecutor Chiraag Bains on Minneapolis protests
Earlier we were joined by Chiraag Bains, who served in the US Justice Department where he investigated police misconduct.
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Trump lashes out at Minneapolis protesters after police station torched
The clip of a black man being held on the ground by a policeman sparked rioting and looting in the city where it happened, Minneapolis, and beyond.
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Tear gas fired at protesters in Minneapolis after death of George Floyd in police custody
There’s been a second night of violent protests in the US city of Minneapolis in response to the death in police custody of a black man, George Floyd.
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US Justice Dept investigating shooting of black jogger as possible hate crime
Warning: some viewers may find the images in this report distressing. Disturbing footage has emerged showing a police officer in Minneapolis kneeling on an African American man’s neck as he yells ‘I cannot breathe’. The man later died. It comes shortly after the US Department of Justice announced they were investigating another shocking incident of…