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Columbia Basin Herald | UPDATED 4 years, 7 months AGO
| June 9, 2020 7:03 AM

Hundreds of mourners packed a Houston church Tuesday for the funeral of George Floyd, the black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice. His body will be carried in a horse-drawn carriage and will be laid to rest next to his mother. Floyd was 46 when he was killed May 25 as a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee on Floyd’s neck as the dying man cried out for his mother. Floyd’s death sparked international protests and drew new attention to police treatment of African Americans in the U.S. Some 6,000 people attended a public memorial service Monday.

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SENT/DEVELOPING:

AMERICA PROTESTS: George Floyd was lovingly remembered Tuesday as Big Floyd — a “gentle giant,” a father and brother, athlete and mentor, and now a force for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice. SENT; developing. With AMERICA PROTESTS-THE LATEST.

AMERICA PROTESTS-GLOBAL: London’s mayor says statues of imperialist figures could be removed from the city’s streets. The move follows the unauthorized felling of a monument to slave trader Edward Colston in the English city of Bristol. SENT: 890 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-ACCOUNATABILITY VIDEO: George Floyd died after suffering a “medical incident during a police interaction.” A 75-year-old protester in Buffalo “tripped and fell.” And an injured Philadelphia college student was the aggressor in a skirmish with an officer. Police officers and their departments have long tried to spin, mislead or even lie to paint their actions in the most favorable light and at times justify or cover up abuses. SENT: 950 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-QUICK CHANGE: In the two weeks since George Floyd’s killing, police departments have banned chokeholds, Confederate monuments have fallen and officers have been arrested and charged. The moves come amid a massive, nationwide outcry against violence by police and racism. SENT: 670 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-NATION'S CAPITAL: As the nation’s capital emerges from a violent and chaotic 10-day stretch of protests, a different mood is taking hold. The anger has given way to something closer to a street fair as community leaders, members of Congress and the D.C. government have rallied to the protesters’ cause. SENT: 850 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-CONGRESS: Despite President Donald Trump’s “law and order” approach to demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, Republicans in Congress are quickly, if quietly, trying to craft legislation to change police practices and accountability, The burst of legislative activity in the Republican ranks is an abrupt turnaround after years of black deaths with law enforcement. SENT; developing.

POLICE REFORM-THINGS TO KNOW: A look at Democrats’ sweeping proposals to overhaul policing. SENT: 1130 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020-DEFUND THE POLICE: Key Democrats, including presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, are rejecting liberal calls to “defund the police” as President Donald Trump and his allies point to the movement as a dangerous example of Democratic overreach. SENT: 1000 words, photos.

TRUMP-RACISM: In his comments since George Floyd died, President Donald Trump has shared lots of opinions about the need for “law and order,” about fighting crime and the dangerous ideas of the “liberal left.” When it comes to addressing racism, not so much. SENT: 1020 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-TRUMP: President Donald Trump ignited fresh controversy over his hard-line “law and order” push Tuesday by peddling yet another unfounded conspiracy theory, this time trying to raise suspicions about a 75-year-old protester who was hospitalized after being shoved by police and falling. SENT: 910 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTEST-CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS: An Alabama county known as a birthplace of black empowerment plans to cover up a Confederate memorial erected more than a century ago and is looking for ways to remove it permanently. SENT: 550 words, photos.

FATAL POLICE CHASE-TEXAS: Police video and documents released more than a year after the in-custody death of a black man in Texas show that sheriff’s deputies repeatedly used a stun gun on him, despite multiple pleas that he couldn’t breathe following a chase after he failed to dim his headlights. SENT: 780 words, photos.

SHOOTING DEATH-POLICE-NEW JERSEY: Video released by the New Jersey attorney general shows a state trooper fired his handgun six times, killing a New York man after a struggle erupted during a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway last month. SENT: 850 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-FRANCE: Virus containment measures have made tensions even worse between police and marginalized residents of France’s low-income neighborhoods, many of whom are Arab or black and trace their roots to former French colonies. The coronavirus lockdown rules further empowered the police, and videos of alleged police abuse multiplied. SENT: 980 words, photos.

JAPAN-US PROTESTS: Japanese public broadcaster NHK has apologized for an animated video it produced trying to explain the ongoing protests in the United States that instead sparked outrage that its depiction of black Americans was offensive. SENT: 430 words, photos.

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AMERICA PROTESTS-NYC: A New York City police officer is facing criminal charges after he was caught on video violently shoving a woman to the ground during a protest over the death of George Floyd. SENT: 480 words.

AMERICA PROTESTS-LAFAYETTE SQUARE: Three Democratic lawmakers are asking federal watchdogs to investigate whether U.S. Park Police broke any laws in forcing demonstrators from the square in front of the White House last week. SENT: 360 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-WASHINGTON STATE: A Black Lives Matter group is suing the Seattle Police Department to halt the violent tactics it has used to break up largely peaceful protests in recent days. SENT: 510 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-POLICE UNION POST: The president of a Fraternal Order of Police chapter along Florida’s Space Coast is apologizing for a social media post over the weekend that encouraged officers linked to departments accused of using excessive force to apply for jobs in Florida. SENT: 265 words.

POLICE-VIOLENCE COMPENSATION: San Francisco’s progressive new prosecutor will expand victim compensation services to the victims and witnesses of police violence. The policy change announced Tuesday comes as the country reels from the deaths of George Floyd and other people of color at the hands of police, including two recent fatal shootings in the San Francisco Bay Area. SENT: 470 words, photos.

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT-FLORIDA: A Confederate statue that had been in a northeast Florida park for more than a century was removed in the predawn hours Tuesday ahead of a protest demanding racial equality. SENT: 270 words, photos.

A Confederate statue that had been in a northeast Florida park for more than a century was removed in the predawn hours Tuesday ahead of a protest demanding racial equality.

BON APPETIT-JOURNALISTS PROTEST: The editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, Adam Rapoport, resigned after a photo of him dressed in a stereotypical Puerto Rican costume surfaced on social media. SENT: 630 words.

OFFICER PUNCHES STORE OWNER: Police say an armed black business owner who called to report a robbery in his store in Alabama was punched in the face by a responding police officer who mistook him for a suspect. SENT: 400 words.

AMERICA PROTESTS-ATLANTA-EXCESSIVE FORCE: Two police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on a couple of college students during a large protest in Atlanta are looking to get their jobs back. SENT: 330 words, photos.

GRAPHICS/INTERACTIVES:

-Minneapolis police use of force among black people (bar chart)

-Minneapolis police uses of force on black people higher than all other races (chart)

PHOTOS:

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AP video has moved from various US locations, Floyd funeral.

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