Has the City of London Given Up on Inclusion?

Leaders with Francine Lacqua

Bloomberg

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Management, Business

4.6 • 64 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, countless companies in cities everywhere responded to the worldwide uproar and Black Lives Matter movement by pledging more diversity, equity and inclusion. Bloomberg reporter Tiwa Adebayo, who has been investigating the progress of these initiatives across London, joins In the City to explain what’s happened in the four years since.

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1:01.8	Bloomberg Audio Studios. Podcasts, Radio News. Today, we're taking you back to 2020 and the murder of George Floyd.
1:14.2	It was a killing, caught on video, that even during a pandemic, moved huge numbers of Americans to take to the streets.
1:22.9	Prosecutors say Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck for eight minutes and
1:28.0	46 seconds including two minutes and 53 seconds after Floyd had become unresponsive
1:34.8	George Floyd was not the first African American to be killed by a white police officer
1:40.8	he wasn't even the first African American to be killed by a white police officer
1:45.2	on film. But his death sparked a moment of introspection and reflection among people and businesses
1:51.5	alike. Top Wall Street firms all pledged their desire for change. More diversity, more inclusion.
1:58.9	Countless memos and initiatives followed to try and achieve that change and the emphasis on diversity, more inclusion. Countless memos and initiatives followed to try and achieve that change,
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