Looking Back at the Flawed First Official Reports of George Floyd’s Death

Posted Friday, April 23, 2021 1:30 pm

Tom Jones | Poynter

On Memorial Day 2020, a Black man died while in police custody in Minneapolis. As we now know, that man was George Floyd and there was a reason he died.

A police officer kneeled on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. That former officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted this week...

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Looking Back at the Flawed First Official Reports of George Floyd’s Death

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