Tag: George Floyd
‘Trained conservators’ are preserving ‘burned scraps of paper’ left at George...
"Trained conservators" from the Midwest Arts Conservation Center are preserving "burned scraps of paper" left at George Floyd Square as Minneapolis prepares the site...
Caryn Sullivan: Posing the question — how are we better?
In May of 2020, we were living under an emergency order that dictated our comings and goings. COVID death counts led the news, and...
FOP report: ‘Horrific’ rise in officers gunned down in 2022
(Daily Caller News Foundation) — Over 100 police officers were shot in the first three months of 2022, up 46% from 2021, according to...
Minneapolis man charged after robbing and beating kidnapping victim in ‘George...
A Minneapolis man has been arrested and charged after allegedly kidnapping a man, robbing and beating him in "George Floyd Square," and setting one...
Police were reprimanded by leadership for using de-escalation tactic during riots
An independent review of how departments and agencies in Minneapolis handled the George Floyd riots revealed that Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) leadership reprimanded officers...
‘Overwhelmed the system’: 911 calls more than quadrupled during Floyd riots
Minneapolis was receiving five times the average number of 911 calls at the height of the George Floyd riots in May 2020. This call...
City report describes leadership failures during George Floyd riots
The Minneapolis City Council received an 86-page report Tuesday from independent auditors that offers the most in-depth look yet at the city’s failure to...
Former Minneapolis officers found guilty in federal civil rights trial
Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane have been convicted in a federal trial of violating George Floyd’s civil...
Commentary: George Floyd scholarship sends black kids the exact wrong message
(The Federalist) — The constant push to virtue signal to the idol of social justice is causing some of our historically trusted institutions of...
Prosecutors argued for shorter sentence in 2020 arson that killed a...
A Rochester man was sentenced to 120 months in prison Friday for burning down a pawnshop during the George Floyd riots in 2020. That...