Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's sentence falls short of the 30 years that prosecutors had requested.
About 1,500 marchers in Minneapolis joined members of the Floyd family and relatives of other Black people who died in encounters with the police.
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.
President Donald Trump takes his tough law and order message to Kenosha, the latest US city roiled by the police shooting of a Black man, as he calls recent anti-racism protests there as "domestic terror" by violent mobs.
US cities including Portland have been rocked by protests against racial injustice sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.
International cricket resumes after nearly four months as England and West Indies players take a knee in support of the global campaign against racial injustice.
A white woman who called the police on a black bird watcher over a dispute about her dog in New York's Central Park is to be prosecuted, US officials have said.
The stage adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved book opens on Broadway this week, staring Jeff Daniels as the upstanding small town white lawyer Atticus Finch who takes on the case of a black man wrongfully accused of rape in the Depression-era south.
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