The majority of the city council of Minneapolis, the city in which African American George Floyd died at the hands of the agents, voted to start a process that will have to lead to a cut in funds for law enforcement and the dismantling of the police department : "The goal is to reform it and to rebuild together with our whole community a new public safety model that truly guarantees everyone's safety".
Joe Biden will be in the next few hours in Houston, Texas to meet Floyd's family privately. This is confirmed by the entourage of the former US vice president. The Democratic candidate in the White House will also record a video message that will be aired tomorrow during the funeral ceremony in Floyd's hometown. The former vice president will not attend the ceremony in person.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney , a former White House candidate, was among the people who marched to Washington in the White House yesterday. "We need to find a way to end injustice and brutality and to reassure people once and for all that black people's life matters, like everyone's life," Romney said. The senator, notoriously a strong critic of Trump, would have made it known - according to reports from the New York Times - that in November he will not vote for the tycoon.
An appeal to fight those who foment divisions and spread falsehoods and misinformation in a period in which the United States is hit by the pandemic and crossed by protests and social unrest: it was launched by Barack Obama, addressing young Americans who in 2020 graduated and graduated in during a virtual ceremony on YouTube attended by 70 personalities from politics, culture and entertainment, including Beyonce ', Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama. That of the former president sounds like yet another lunge against Donald Trump.