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"Change takes time": US marks one year since the murder of George Floyd
The family of the black man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis will arrive at the White House, while comprehensive police reform is stuck in Congress.
Despite this, the policeman was convicted in a historic trial and a number of states promoted laws to increase police supervision.
"Everything cannot be changed in months or a year, but there is a new discourse"
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Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 19:03
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In the video: Documentation presented at the murder trial of George Floyd (Photo: Reuters)
The United States today (Tuesday) marks the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis, after which the biggest protest in recent decades against police violence against black citizens erupted.
In Washington, President Joe Biden will meet privately with Floyd's family members at the White House, not far from Congress, where comprehensive police reform is stuck.
Derrick Johnson, president of the human rights organization NAACP, said he would meet with members of Congress to urge them to pass the reform. "It is difficult to say whether the racial relationship is better than it was a year ago because change takes a long time," he said in an interview. "We can not change everything in a few months or a year, but there is certainly a new discourse in this country."
In Minneapolis, a foundation set up in Floyd's memory by several members of his family organized a music and food festival in a park near the courthouse where Derek Chubin, the white cop who pinned his knee to Floyd's neck for about nine minutes, was convicted last month of murder at the end of a historic trial.
The 45-year-old Chubin faces up to 40 years in prison and will be sentenced on June 25.
Three other police officers who were at the scene are also on trial, which will only begin next year.
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A plaque in memory of Floyd in Boston (Photo: Reuters)
Later in the day, a candle lighting ceremony will be held at the place where Chauvin strangled Floyd the handcuffed, who was 46 at the time of his death.
The black man was arrested on suspicion of buying cigarettes on a counterfeit $ 20 bill.
The person who recorded his murder using her phone was Drenella Fraser, a passerby.
She uploaded it to Facebook, and the video shocked many in the United States and around the world.
In the days that followed, thousands flocked to the city streets of the United States and other states, demanding a change in police policy that uses disproportionate force against blacks and other minorities.
Since then, lawmakers in all 50 states in the United States and the District of Columbia have begun advancing legislation to increase police oversight and accountability, and new laws have been enacted in 24 states.
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