Police said Floyd matched the description of a suspect in a forgery case at a grocery store, and that he resisted arrest, according to the Associated Press. Biden on Wednesday compared the circumstances surrounding Floyd’s arrest to the 2014 death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was placed in a chokehold by police…
Numerous calls for thorough investigations and possibly criminal charges rang out Tuesday as the country reeled from the death of George Floyd — yet another instance of a deadly encounter between police and an unarmed person of color.“Firing the officers that killed #GeorgeFloyd was the right first move,” tweeted Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) “The second?…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…