Thousands of demonstrators joined a Black Lives Matter rally outside the U.S. Embassy in London to protest racial injustice and the death of George Floyd.
6:58 p.m.: Minneapolis City Council wants to replace police department
The veto-proof majority group said it wants to shift toward a community-led public safety system, though at the moment the hurdles to disbanding the police are unclear. "We know that the removal of this mural does not erase painful memories and are deeply apologetic for the amount of grief it has caused," the organization said in a statement on Sunday."We believe this is a step in the right direction and hope to aid in healing our city through the power of thoughtful and inclusive public art."Last week, a statue of Rizzo near City Hall1:33 p.m.
The other measures include reforming 50-A, the state law that keeps police behavior from public scrutiny; move vendor enforcement out of the police; and bring community voices into the senior level of the police. Historian David Olusoga said that the problem with the statue has long been"that it has not been seen as a problem." It was erected in 1895, nearly two centuries after he died in 1721.
However, it was only until the 1990s that Colston's involvement in the slave trade, the source of much of the money which he gave to Bristol, gained more publicity, according to Historic England, a body of the British Government. Portland, Oregon, experienced another evening of protests and demonstrations that began much the same as the last several nights with separate groups of demonstrators taking to the streets.
A group of protesters take a knee while marching in lower Manhattan Saturday, June 6, 2020, in New York."We are lifting the curfew, effective immediately. Yesterday and last night we saw the very best of our city," the mayor said in a tweet on Sunday."Tomorrow we take the first big step to restart. Keep staying safe. Keep looking out for each other."
Body camera video played at the press conference shows an officer deploying his stun gun on a black man, who was walking away from him at the time. The man seems in the footage to be suffering from some kind of medical episode. Florissant Police Chief Timothy Fagan said the incident happened on June 2 but he only learned about it and saw the video on Saturday. The chief said the FBI and the St. Louis County Police Department are investigating the incident.
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