Derek Chauvin (pictured in a Minneapolis courtroom on March 15) has been charged with second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 2020 death of George Floyd As of Monday, all 15 jurors who will hear the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin have been impaneled. Twelve jurors will deliberate and … Read more
French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo has come under fire for a cartoon which shows the Queen kneeling on Meghan Markle’s neck, drawing parallels to the death of George Floyd. The publication, which has faced scrutiny before for its controversial drawings, has sparked outrage again just days after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed they … Read more
Businesses are boarding up across New York City as special police units gear up to tackle looters and rioters and foreign countries are warning the few travelers who are not banned from entering the country to avoid it for fear of civil unrest after the election. Dozens of retailers in Manhattan, including stores on Fifth … Read more
Angry teenagers accuse village elders of ‘racism’ after they refuse to let them put up BLM message in disused phone box Teenagers in a Wiltshire village wanted to use a phone box as a BLM message Phone boxes were used in the 20th century as a place to house telephones With the advent of mobile … Read more
Selena Gomez says she dealt with ‘a bit of depression’ amid onset of coronavirus pandemic and shutdown Singer, 28, spoke on Instagram Live with Dr. Vivek Murthy Chat came to mark World Mental Health Day on Saturday Gomez credited people around her and creative outlets as major help Murthy served as Surgeon General from 2014 until … Read more
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin – the Minneapolis police officer charged with George Floyd’s murder – is released from prison after posting ‘non-cash’ $1 million bond By Karen Ruiz For Dailymail.com Published: 18:05 BST, 7 October 2020 | Updated: 18:22 BST, 7 October 2020 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd has … Read more
Prince Harry today praised Diversity’s ‘amazing’ Black Lives Matter-inspired dance routine on Britain’s Got Talent as he called for an end to ‘structural racism’ in Britain. In a wide-ranging interview from the Sussexes’ £11million California mansion, Prince Harry said he was ‘surprised’ by the thousands of complaints made to Ofcom after the controversial performance. The … Read more
A police officer is facing a disciplinary investigation after branding George Floyd a ‘drug-crazed maniac,’ and blasting Diversity’s Black Lives Matter-inspired dance routine on Britain’s Got Talent. PC Mark Gunn, a serving officer for 10 years at South Wales Police, made the controversial comments while discussing Diversity’s dance, which sparked around 24,500 complaints, on a … Read more
The Justice Department declared New York City, Portland and Seattle as ‘anarchist jurisdictions that can have federal funding ripped away for failing to clamp down on violence according to its criteria. It listed the three cities as among those ‘that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable … Read more
Les Ferdinand believes the meaning behind ‘taking a knee’ has been lost after QPR players shunned making the gesture at the weekend. QPR players did not take the knee before their 3-2 defeat by Coventry on Friday night, a sight that has become commonplace since the return of football as a gesture of support for … Read more