Residents will not be allowed to travel on city streets or congregate in any public space between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. Exceptions will be made for people returning from or going to work.
A request to Chauvin’s lawyer for comment was not immediately returned Friday night.The other officers have not been charged, but the investigation remains ongoing, Freeman said.Floyd's neck for more than 8 1/2 minutes
as he cried “I can’t breathe” and called out for his mother. Stunned onlookers watched helplessly as Floyd, who was black and a former high school star athlete, gasped for air. The fatal encounter took place Monday after a grocery store clerk called police and reported that Floyd had tried to pay with a counterfeit $20 bill.Stephen Maturen / Getty Imageswho coached kids in his spare time. But his legacy, at least in the immediate, will be of the man whose death forever changed the Twin Cities.
"This is a young rage, the same way young people took to the streets in the 1960s, 70s and 80s," Saje Mathieu, a history professor at the University of Minnesota who lives in suburban Minneapolis,."They're saying, 'We're already cut. We're already hurt. We're already bruised. There's no other way to communicate my pain and rage than to take to the streets.
Protests broke out all across the country in the wake of Floyd’s death. From New York, where demonstrators blocked the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday, to Los Angeles where a protester smashed through a police cruiser with his skateboard Wednesday, the days and nights following Floyd’s killing were filled with anger, frustration and a demand for justice.
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