Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police force.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser designed a city block near the executive mansion as “Black Lives Matter Plaza”; protesters added the words “=Defund the police” in bright yellow paint.
Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, is charged with killing Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, during an arrest in Minneapolis.
Police in Chicago killed 21-year-old Hampton and another Black Panther Party activist in December 1969 during a pre-dawn raid that the Cook County state’s attorney claimed was the result of an earlier gunfight instigated by the pair.
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