US remembers George Floyd
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Family of George Floyd promise to continue campaign for racial justice. Also: Spain calls for arms embargo against Israel over the war in Gaza. And male MPs in New Zealand describe their clothing to support female colleague.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Julia McFarlane, and in the early hours of Monday 26th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.3 | Commemorations in the United States to mark five years since the death of George Floyd. |
| 0:17.8 | Spain calls for an arms embargo against Israel over the war in Gaza. And the Ukrainian |
| 0:23.5 | president, Volodymy Zelensky, condemns the silence of world leaders. Also in this podcast, |
| 0:32.0 | This election is weaker. A voting center like this one, which I've been coming to for a long time, is normally full at this hour. |
| 0:44.0 | Venezuela holds parliamentary elections boycotted by the opposition. |
| 0:52.4 | In 2020, the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin |
| 0:57.7 | thrust the Black Lives Matter movement into the global spotlight. |
| 1:01.8 | What do we want? |
| 1:02.7 | Justice. |
| 1:03.5 | When do we want it? |
| 1:04.5 | No justice. |
| 1:06.3 | No peace. |
| 1:07.5 | Prosecute to police. |
| 1:09.4 | No justice. |
| 1:10.5 | Millions of Americans turned out for some of the largest demonstrations in recent US history, calling for police accountability and racial justice. |
| 1:19.4 | At the time, governments and companies promised to address bias and discrimination. |
| 1:24.2 | But exactly five years on, there are fears that the current US administration under President Trump |
| 1:30.0 | is rolling back on reforms aimed at tackling police violence. |
| 1:34.4 | This week, the Justice Department announced it was scrapping investigations involving police brutality |
| 1:39.3 | filed in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing. |
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