The chief of the Minneapolis police on Thursday apologized to the family of an unarmed black man who died this week after a white officer pinned him down with a knee to the neck, a fatal encounter that has triggered two nights of violent protests.
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said his department had contributed to a “deficit of hope” across the Minnesota city even before the death of 46-year-old George Floyd on Monday.
The police chief said the vast majority of protesters had been peaceful but there was a core group of demonstrators who had been focused on causing destruction. On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump called Floyd’s death a “very, very sad event” after a reporter asked him about it. Garner’s dying words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement calling attention to a wave of killings of African-Americans by police using unjustified lethal force.
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