Family of African American George Floyd demands murder charge for police who killed him while he was handcuffed in Minneapolis
Protesters gather at the scene where George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US May 26, 2020.
"I would like those officers to be charged with murder, because that's exactly what they did," she said on NBC television.Outrage at the latest example of police brutality against African Americans spread across the country, after a shocking bystander video showed a police officer kneeling on Floyd's neck Monday for at least five minutes while he was pinned to the ground after being detained on a minor charge.
"How many more of these senseless excessive-force killings from the people who are supposed to protect us can we take in America?" he said on NBC. Garner's death helped spark the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement, which highlighted police killings of unarmed African American men, often for alleged non-violent offenses.But his election rival, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, said the FBI need to thoroughly investigate the case.
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