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A sign displaying the message “We Can’t Breathe” is held out of a car window as demonstrators make their way towards the US Embassy in central London on May 31, 2020 to protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis, USA. — AFP
Floyd, 46, died of “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression,“ and the manner of death was “homicide,“ the Hennepin County Medical Examiner in Minneapolis said in a statement.
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