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What's Changed — And What Hasn't — In The Year Since George Floyd Was Killed

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

After his death on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the face of a movement against police violence. But attorney Andrea Ritchie says, in some ways, the prosecution and conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin created a false sense of progress in that movement. Ritchie focuses on police misconduct and is the author of the book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women And Women Of Color.

Bowling Green State University criminologist Phillip Stinson explains why so few police officers are prosecuted and convicted for murder. Stinson maintains the Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database.

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0:00.0

One year later, man.

0:05.0

This year has been a rollercoaster ride for us.

0:11.5

On Sunday, at a gathering in Brooklyn, New York, Terrence Floyd said, quote, the world

0:16.5

woke up when his brother, George, was murdered.

0:19.5

Finally, there are as an opening to what we already knew.

0:24.5

Tuesday marks one year since George Floyd died after a former Minneapolis police officer

0:29.9

Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck as Floyd pleaded for air.

0:34.1

The ensuing protest movement that spread around the world has a goal, said Terrence Floyd,

0:39.5

to keep his brother's name ringing in the ears of everyone.

0:43.5

Because you keep my brother's name ringing, you're going to keep everybody else's name

0:46.5

ringing.

0:47.5

Breonna Taylor, Sean Bell.

0:49.5

Oh, man.

0:51.5

A mod artery.

0:52.5

You could go through the whole list.

0:54.7

Each of those three names represents a story that has not ended the way George Floyd's

1:00.1

did.

1:00.9

The Department of Justice recently opened an investigation into the Louisville Police

1:05.1

Department where no officers were charged in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

1:10.1

A mod artery was shot while jogging through a white neighborhood last February.

1:14.3

No charges were brought until months later when video emerged.

1:18.0

The trial of the three men accused of his murder, including one retired policeman, won't

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