More protests are planned across the United States and the world Saturday in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
into law on Friday. Meanwhile in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz and the House Democratic majority are backing a slate of proposed reforms — but key Republican lawmakers say they’ll block most of the ambitious changes.
The liberal city with a lengthy history of massive, frequent protests has taken hits from all sides – from demonstrators, some city officials, the president and now a judge – over its response to recent protests. The judge said weapons like tear gas and pepper spray fail to target “any single agitator or criminal” and they are especially problematic during the coronavirus pandemic.
Beshear had said it is"long past due" to remove the statue, as many African Americans visiting their Capitol see it "as a symbol that they don't matter, a symbol of the enslavement of their ancestors and a symbol of the continued systematic racism that we see in so many parts of our society." Trump's handpicked chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, said in a public statement that he had erred in allowing the military to be drawn into Trump's politicized response at Washington's Lafeyette Square to mostly peaceful protests following the death of George Floyd. Mark Esper, Trump's Defense Secretary, has signaled his willingness to change the names of Army forts that honor Confederate generals, a stance Trump has rejected out of hand.
Cuomo was joined at the signing by the state legislative leaders, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton and the mothers of men killed by police in New York City.
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