Latest news and comment on the death of George Floyd
October 2024
The Stakes
If Trump wins the election, US protest movements could face serious crackdowns
Since George Floyd’s death in 2020, Republican-led states have expanded riot laws to suppress protesters. Trump has a track record of calling for militarized responses to demonstrations
August 2024
US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’
Exclusive: groundbreaking Mapping Police Violence data estimates scale of physical force and civilian injuries
Bluff by Danez Smith review – ‘Afropessimism’ as an artform
The American poet’s dark, politically conscious fourth collection tackles the entrenched problem of anti-blackness and the aftermath of the George Floyd protests
Former officer who killed George Floyd transferred to Texas prison after attack
Trump previously praised Walz for response to 2020 protests, audio shows
Tim Walz’s handling of George Floyd’s killing by police comes back into view
June 2024
Debating whether Julian Assange is a journalist is irrelevant. He changed journalism forever
Margaret Simons
But he didn’t foresee that lies, conspiracy theories and misinformation would ride the internet as easily as truth and transparency
Seattle protesters arrested over anti-police graffiti awarded $700,000 by jury
Federal court jury rules first amendment rights of four Black Lives Matter protesters were violated
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police at George Floyd protest in hospice care
Former White House staffer says Trump called for leaker to be executed
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s George Floyd rant condemned by Congressional Black Caucus
May 2024
$150m paid in police misconduct claims shows violent response to 2020 protests, experts say
Analysis of 130 lawsuits settled refutes narrative of unruly demonstrations amid fears of police crackdown on Gaza protests
How police killings are kept hidden: ‘We don’t know how many George Floyds there are’
Dr Roger Mitchell, former DC chief medical examiner, on how homicides are mislabeled as ‘accidents’ and how ‘we must hold the system accountable’
Authorized big-screen biopic of George Floyd in the works
The Black Lives Matter era is over. It taught us the limits of diversity for diversity’s sake
Nesrine Malik
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools
April 2024
Minneapolis backs $150,000 settlement for George Floyd witness’s PTSD lawsuit
Minneapolis city council approves payment to Donald Williams, who tried to intervene to stop police killing in 2020
‘Outdated and offensive’: police in England and Wales barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’
The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdog
Seven organizations the far right is targeting for diversity efforts post-affirmative action
Conservatives are taking legal action against public and private organizations that aim to aid women and people of color
January 2024
How Cord Jefferson turned a novel about race into American Fiction – the year’s buzziest comedy
The Oscar-nominated film is a biting satire of the publishing industry’s obsession with stereotypical ‘Black’ stories
