The jury deliberated for about four days before finding Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of the Black motorist in midwestern Minnesota state in April.
A preliminary report probing last October's deaths of protesters in Lagos also said that there was an attempt to cover up and conceal the incident, including by police officers who picked up bullets.
Floyd’s murder sparked international protests and forced police reform onto the political agenda. A year on, where does the fight for racial justice in the US stand?
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a sweeping investigation into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 killing of the Black woman in a botched police raid.
Footage of two cops detaining Virginia National Guard’s Lieutenant Caron Nazario at gunpoint and pepper-spraying him in the face during a violent traffic stop comes as police face multiple allegations of racism and misconduct.
The week-long clashes have continued after security forces fired to disperse protesters, who were trying to storm the provincial government building using rocks and Molotov cocktails.
While a Black man’s death in police custody in Brussels triggered fresh protests, calls on Belgium to reckon with its colonial past have only grown louder.
The chief of police in Columbus, Ohio, said the officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man engaged in an act of "senseless violence" that should immediately cost the officer his job.
Footage shows Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca shooting Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank at point-blank range outside their house in Paniqui after a heated confrontation.
Dozens of protesters launch projectiles at riot police, smash up shop windows, torch cars, and burn barricades during a demonstration in French capital against police violence and controversial security bill.
The racial fissures in French society are a feature, not a bug.
Lawmakers from President Macron's ruling party say they will propose a "complete rewrite" of part of a draft law that would restrict the filming of police, following massive outrage.
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