police violence
Millions: NYPD compensates anti-racism protesters
Demonstrators protest after the death of George Floyd, who died in a brutal police operation. photo
© Christine T. Nguyen/Minnesota Public Radio/AP/dpa
The killing of African American George Floyd shocked many people in 2020. Protests erupted, with police cracking down. Now more than 1300 people should therefore get money.
The officials in the US east coast metropolis were noticed in the summer of 2020 with sometimes particularly aggressive behavior towards protesters. After the killing of African American George Floyd by a civil rights police officer, they took to the streets. These included the excessive use of batons and pepper spray, and arrests.
Trigger: George Floyd
According to the plaintiff’s lawyers, the sum to be paid would be the highest for demonstrators in US history. According to US media, it still has to be confirmed by a court. Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020 in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis (Minnesota) triggered demonstrations against racism and police violence in the United States.
Videos documented how the officers pushed the unarmed man to the ground. White police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for a good nine minutes while Floyd begged him to breathe and eventually lost consciousness.
Chauvin was sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison for second-degree murder. He’s already serving that sentence. A federal court had sentenced him to an additional 21 years in prison. As a result, the United States saw the largest civil rights protests in decades.
They denounced systemic racism and, above all, the unequal treatment of blacks and people of color by the police. A long debate ensued about reforms in the organization of the United States’ emergency services. The attitude towards the police is one of the numerous issues on which US society is deeply divided.