Article 5414C "No Justification": Minneapolis Demands Murder Charges for Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd

"No Justification": Minneapolis Demands Murder Charges for Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd

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Parts of Minneapolis erupted into flames Wednesday night as residents again took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. A viral video shows Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for a number of minutes as Floyd repeatedly says I cannot breathe." Three other officers stood by as George Floyd suffocated. They have been identified as Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng. All four officers were fired on Tuesday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called on prosecutors to file criminal charges against Derek Chauvin. We speak with civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, founder of the Racial Justice Network and former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. What needs to happen is that charges need to be brought immediately against the four officers who killed George Floyd," she says. There is simply no justification for what they did or why they did it."

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