Five Senators kneeled for 8:46 minutes -- the length of time that Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck.
Senate Democrats stood in silence for almost 10 minutes on Thursday morning to honor the memories of African-Americans killed in recent racially charged incidents.
Floyd was pronounced dead not long afterward. His killing — along with the untimely deaths of Ahmaud Arbury, who was shot by two white men while jogging in Georgia, and Breonna Taylor, who was shot by Louisville police in a skirmish in her own home after officers entered without warning to deliver a search warrant — have spurred 11 days of protests and demonstrations around the world demanding justice and an end to racism and police brutality.
On Wednesday afternoon, the murder charge against Chauvin, who was caught on video kneeling on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, was upgraded to second-degree murder, while the other three officers at the scene were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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