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CEE DOG said:
That's why he was charged with 3rd degree instead of 1st degree. In America getting a conviction on 1st degree against a white cop is only a 1% percent chance. George Zimmerman would be in jail if black people had took the emotional side out and pressed for 2nd or 3rd degree murder. It's easier to prove.
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I agree 100%, they tried to go too big.
 

George Floyd death: Thousands join UK protests
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View: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52868465


They held up signs saying "Justice for George Floyd", who died in police custody while an officer kneeled on his neck to pin him down.

Derek Chauvin has been charged with his murder in Minneapolis. The white police officer has been sacked from his job.

During the protests Met Police officers arrested five people.

The protests have been held at Trafalgar Square and outside the US Embassy in Battersea.

Elsewhere in the UK, hundreds marched through Manchester city centre chanting "Black Lives Matter".

And a similar protest also took place in Cardiff.
 
From Eric Garner to George Floyd: Protests reveal how little has changed in 6 years

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...has-changed-in-6-years/ar-BB14QLSR?li=BBnb7Kz

In July 2014, a black man suspected of a petty crime was pulled to the ground by New York City police and choked on the pavement as a witness videotaped him crying out, “I can’t breathe.”


The death of Eric Garner touched off protests across the city and around the country, energizing a budding project called Black Lives Matter, which swelled a few weeks later with the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Propelled by those events, and the deaths of other black men and women in police custody, the movement helped bring about a national reckoning on police use of force and other law enforcement tactics seen as targeting minorities and the poor.

But for all the change that has come as a result of that effort, it has not been enough to stop the deaths or disparate treatment, or to break the fear, repression and resentment that millions of Americans feel about the way they are treated by their police and their country.
 
George Floyd’s death in police custody has sparked more than 100 protests, rallies and vigils across the country this weekend.
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The map is on the right.

https://www.nbcnews.com/

In Pennsylvania, they missed Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
 
CEE DOG said:
That's why he was charged with 3rd degree instead of 1st degree. In America getting a conviction on 1st degree against a white cop is only a 1% percent chance. George Zimmerman would be in jail if black people had took the emotional side out and pressed for 2nd or 3rd degree murder. It's easier to prove.
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No the jury was allowed to consider manslaughter also for Zimmerman. So he wasn't overcharged.
 
jag4life said:
No the jury was allowed to consider manslaughter also for Zimmerman. So he wasn't overcharged.
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Didn't they have to ask the judge for clarification? It was added.

Judge Nelson ruled that the lesser included offense of manslaughter could be considered by the jury and would be included in the jury instructions. The prosecution had requested that a lesser charge of third-degree felony murder, an offense that includes the commission of child abuse, be included in the jury instructions. Defense attorney Don West called the possible lesser charge "outrageous" and a "trick" by the state, because they had asked for it to be included at the last minute. Judge Nelson ruled that the jury would not be able to consider the offense of third-degree murder
 
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It is being reported this was not the actions of the Cincinnati police but some county "officers" or something like that. But they are in uniform and represent "law enforcement".

Quoted from Twitter (@P0kes) Just to restate the corrections, those are Hamilton County sheriff's dept officers at the justice center in Cincinnati.

See how that works?

View: https://twitter.com/P0kes/status/1267230163521191936?s=20
 
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Photos: Moments of peace, unity you may not have seen in George Floyd protests


While images of chaos dominated much of the coverage of protests over the killing of George Floyd, there were many instances of largely peaceful demonstrations that featured dancing, children and united calls for justice.

n Newark, N.J., some demonstrators broke out in a choreographed dance as they marched through the streets demanding change.

In some instances -- from New Jersey to Michigan to Texas -- police officers even joined in the marches, walking alongside the protesters in a show of solidarity.
 
‘Rotten racism’: newspapers around the world react to George Floyd protests
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-george-floyd-protests/ar-BB14T0ZK?li=BBnb7Kz
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The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the nationwide protests it triggered, and Donald Trump’s reaction have prompted comment and editorials around the globe.

In the Sydney Morning Herald, columnist Tom Swizer sees an all too familiar pattern.

“The mayhem follows a depressing pattern in American history. The record of state failures to protect blacks and others against police brutality is all too full. Ditto the looting and arson, killings and general eruption of racial violence in many American cities when injustices occur.”

An editorial Le Monde paints a similar picture of structural racism and police brutality by police and others against black Americans.

“George Floyd and Eric Garner are not isolated victims. The list is too long to give here of these black American men of all ages, who are too often victims of encounters with the police that go turn out badly; of the trigger happy in a country where firearms are routinely carried as an accessory, or just plain racism.
 
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