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.
Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, is charged with killing Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, during an arrest in Minneapolis.
Zee blamed Trump for encouraging what he called “fascism, white supremacy, xenophobia and patriarchy wrapped in the Bible and the American flag,” said Andy Zee, who insisted that “removing” the president from office on election Day will be “too late.”
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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