Donald Trump signed a decree on Tuesday ordering a limited reform of the police to try to respond to the historic movement of anger against police violence and racism that is shaking the United States.
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The decree includes a ban on controversial strangulation attempts, except " if the life of a police officer is in danger, " the president said after meeting with the families of victims of police or racist violence. He " encourages " thousands of US police units to adopt " highest professional standards, " he added from the White House gardens.
These measures, however, fall short of what the protesters who have been mobilizing since the death of George Floyd, asphyxiated by a white police officer on May 25 in Minneapolis, are demanding.
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