What has changed since George Floyd's death?

Nine minutes and 29 seconds changed the world just two years ago. George Floyd, an African American man, was killed right here in Minneapolis by a white police officer who knelt on Floyds neck and back for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.

US: Police Brutality and Black Lives Matter

 

Activist Chelsea Miller and data analyst Samuel Sinyangwe on racial justice, Black Lives Matter and police reform.

In the first episode of Generation Change, a new series looking at young people pushing for change around the world, we travel to the United States to meet two Generation Z activists.

Chelsea Miller is an anti-racism activist and co-founder of the civic organisation Freedom March New York City. Samuel Sinyangwe is a data and policy analyst who co-founded Mapping Police Violence – a database recording police brutality in the US.

Proud Boys Burn BLM Banners During Pro-Trump Rally | NowThis

 

Violent agitators wearing Proud Boys insignia burned a church’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign at a pro-Trump protest in D.C.

Readying for war: Inside an armed right-wing group in Utah

 

The Utah Citizens' Alarm is a self-styled militia that formed in response to protests for racial justice this spring. The group’s leaders claim they are trying to protect their community, but experts warn they are part of a worrying trend of Americans taking the law into their own hands.

These people are not a militia (As that would imply being part of the government.) they are terrorists plain and simple.

Black Lives Matter: Co-founder Alicia Garza on the future of the movement - BBC Newsnight

 #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Alicia Garza talks to #Newsnight about the movement’s future, social justice and her debut book, The Purpose of Power.

Moment of Reckoning: Racism and Police in America

 

Reforms haven’t stopped police from killing Black people at alarmingly high rates. Now protesters want to defund police.

Do police reforms work?

Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, 2020 has seen what is likely the largest wave of protests in United States history: all centred on the crisis of police killing Black people.

What will halt Black Lives Matter protests in US?

 

The death of black American George Floyd while being arrested in the U.S. has triggered more than three months of protests against police brutality and racism. Although the rallies have been largely peaceful, cities such as Portland have become flash points for unrest.

What Black Lives Matter means to an 11-year-old

Eleven-year-old Jolia Bossette on being a Black kid in America.

 

'Wall of Moms' protect Portland's BLM protesters

A group of hundreds of mothers have attended demonstrations and stood as a human barricade between Black Lives Matter protesters and federal officers in Portland after seeing videos circulated online of federal agents in camouflage snatching demonstrators off the streets.

The Portland protests have occurred every night in the nearly two months since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

Outrage at Donald Trump deploying federal agents to end what he called 'anarchy' reinvigorated protests in Portland In July.

• I wanted to take action': behind the 'Wall of Moms' protecting Portland's protesters
• Portland clampdown: why are federal agents there and what are they doing?

Britain's colonial legacy in Ireland under spotlight after Black Lives Matter protests

Continuing controversy over the future of some public statues, and protests by the Black Lives Matter movement, are shining a new light on aspects of Britain’s imperial past.

Black Lives Matter: What is systemic racism? Kids’ questions answered

What is systemic racism, are the issues in the US and UK the same, and what can we do to make a difference? We put children's questions on the Black Lives Matter movement to a politician, a historian and an academic.

What "defund the police" really means

Among those protesting police brutality in the US, there is a slogan that’s taken hold: “defund the police.” The key idea is a push to move the billions of dollars we spend on police in the US, to social services and other public spending. The disparities between policing budgets and those of other city agencies are massive.

UK police accused of targeting black men with tasers - BBC News

A 24-year-old black man, who is paralysed after being tasered by police in London last month, has told the BBC he believes he was targeted because of his colour. Jordan Walker-Brown fell off a wall as police chased him, damaging his spinal cord. A Metropolitan police officer is under criminal investigation.

What does it mean to defund the police?

The Black Lives Matter protests in the US, which escalated in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, have brought the little-known but decades-old campaign to abolish US police into the spotlight. But what are abolitionists calling for, and how would a police-free society work? Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores the arguments for abolition with a campaigner from MPD150 and Reclaim the Block, and also Sam Levin, LA correspondent for Guardian US

Questions And Answers For 15 June

Question: What do you call a Trump campaign rally? Other than the obvious.
Answer:   A Covid-19 party.

Question: The comment section of a Black Live Matter demonstration article in Japan Today is called?
Answer:    Either a white grievance party or just a whole lot of denial. 

Question: Is there a "miracle" drug for covid-19?
Answer:   Only in the uneducated, science dying  mind of you know who?

Question: How does North Korea act when it feels its being ignored by the world?
Answer:   Like a spoiled petulant child.

Question: Ted Cruz; Is he still relevant?
Answer:   Only when he's being owned on Twitter by Ron Perlman.

Koreans React To George Floyd's Death and Protests In the US

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, the Black Lives Matter movement has gone global and a lot of you requested that Asian Boss interview ordinary South Koreans to get their perspectives on this issue. South Korea, of course, has experience with organizing one of the most successful protests in history to impeach their own president.

Has the United States turned a corner on racism?

The son of Martin Luther King Jr reflects on what has and has not changed over the decades in race relations in the US.

In 1968, African American civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.

"Fifty-two years later, all over the streets of America, Blacks and whites and others are saying 'Black lives matter'," his son, Martin Luther King III tells The Bottom Line's Steve Clemons.

"We're still saying to the nation 'Treat us with dignity and respect and like the human beings that we are'."

Black Protester Recaps Staring Down White Agitator

‘You look them in the eye so that they know that you’re human.’ — Samantha Francine fearlessly stared down a white aggressor at a protest for Black lives in Montana.

Police Attack Reporters at Black Lives Matter Protests

Police have attacked journalists reporting on Black Lives Matter protests more than 100 times in the past week.

US President Donald Trump, defiant and outraged, threatens to deploy the army to deal with protesters.

Many are calling for a "healing speech" from US President Donald Trump, tackling racial inequality and police reform head-on.

Those are the demands of many protesters outraged over the death of Black American George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.

After several nights of the worst unrest in decades, Trump had this message: He is the president of law and order.