Minneapolis recollects African American 5 years after his loss of life | EUROtoday

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The place the place he died has turn into a memorial that a lot of the metropolis desires to protect.

The anniversary falls a couple of days after the choice of the Department of Justice of the Trump Administration to archive the investigations on a number of essential police departments together with that of Louisville and Minneapolis, underneath investigation for the killing of Breonna Taylor and Floyd.

The African American was suffocated by a white policeman through the try to arrest him.

The video of his loss of life, shot by a passerby, shocked America. “I can’t breathe … please … I can’t breathe”, he feels to implore Floyd blocked on the bottom and handcuffed, whereas an agent presses his knee on his neck for his neck for 9 minutes. Agent Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years of jail.