Death of George Floyd

Sheneen McClain, left, the mother of Elijah McClain, and a supporter leave the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo. on Friday, March 1, 2024. Peter Cichuniec, a Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain in a rare prosecution of medical responders that has left officials rethinking how they treat people in police custody. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP)

Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders

A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020.

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz serves an apple bar with caramel glaze to Rep. Ethan Cha, of Woodbury, and other state lawmakers in the state capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Feb. 12, 2024, the first day of Minnesota's legislative session for the year. Walz has a tradition of serving bars to state lawmakers each year on the first day of the legislative session in a gesture of camaraderie and bipartisanship. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Law enforcement in schools dominates 1st day of the Minnesota Legislature’s 2024 session

Jeanelle Austin, director of the George Floyd Global Memorial, pauses during the installation of "Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix," at Arizona State University Art Museum, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in Tempe, Ariz. For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism. Now hundreds of those artifacts are being displayed at an exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Finding meaning in George Floyd’s death through protest art left at his murder site

Trooper Ryan Londregan walks hand-in-hand with his wife to his first court appearance to answer to murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop last summer on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024 at the Hennepin Public Safety Facility in Minneapolis, Minn. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

Minnesota trooper accused of fatally shooting motorist Ricky Cobb II makes first court appearance

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Federal prosecutors urged a judge Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin's attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd..(Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Prosecutors urge rejection of ex-cop’s bid to dismiss civil rights conviction in George Floyd murder

Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death

A Colorado paramedic was sentenced to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain. Peter Cichuniec and a fellow paramedic were convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide for injecting McClain with ketamine, a powerful sedative ultimately blamed for his death. (March 1)

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FILE - Tou Thao speaks during his sentencing hearing in Hennepin County District Court, Aug. 7, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minn. On Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal by ex-officer Tou Thao, who held back crowd as George Floyd lay dying

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd.

High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons

Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about whether the federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Inmate who stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times is charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the former Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd.

Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, answers a question during an interview at the State Attorneys General Association meetings , Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

5 takeaways from AP’s Black attorneys general interviews about race, justice and politics

In wide-ranging interviews with The Associated Press, six sitting Black attorneys general discussed the challenges and opportunities of serving as the top law enforcement officer in their respective states.

FILE - Demonstrators gather outside Cup Foods to celebrate the murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. Several stores at the location where Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 have sued the city, accusing it of neglecting the area and hurting business. The lawsuit, filed in mid-November in state court, names the city, Mayor Jacob Frey and other officials and accuses the city of not properly policing the area since Floyd’s death. It also accuses the city of blocking the intersection that is now known as George Floyd Square with concrete barriers for more than a year after Floyd's death, keeping customers from entering. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Businesses where George Floyd was killed sue Minneapolis, saying police are not protecting the area

Several stores where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 are suing the city for about $1.5 million.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Derek Chauvin’s family has received no updates after prison stabbing, attorney says

An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd says his family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials after he was stabbed in prison.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing, was stabbed in prison, AP source says

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been stabbed by another inmate at a federal prison in Arizona where he’s serving time for the murder of George Floyd.

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Nov. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal of former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd

The Supreme Court has rejected former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s appeal of his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin was convicted in the killing of George Floyd. Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn't cause Floyd's death. In a motion filed in federal court Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, Chauvin said he would never have pleaded guilty to the federal charge in 2021 if he had known about the theories of a Kansas forensic pathologist with whom he began corresponding in February this year. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin makes another bid to overturn federal conviction in murder of George Floyd

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn’t cause Floyd’s death.

Minneapolis police lieutenant disciplined over racist email promoted to homicide unit leader

A Minneapolis police lieutenant who was placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email has been promoted to lead the department’s homicide unit.

FILE - Doors are boarded up as protesters gather at the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Minneapolis, as people protest the arrest and death of George Floyd who died in police custody. The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey agreed on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, on a new location for a police station to replace the one ransacked and set on fire in response to the murder of George Floyd by a city police officer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Minneapolis City Council approves site for new police station; old one burned during 2020 protest

The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey have agreed on a new location for a police station to replace the one set on fire in 2020 response to the murder of George Floyd by a city police officer.

Attorneys Chris Madel, left, and Fred Bruno, right, stand by the side of former Minneapolis police Officer Justin Stetson, who was sentenced for beating Jaleel Stallings amid the civil unrest after George Floyd's murder, at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool)

Ex-officer sentenced after assaulting man during unrest in Minneapolis after murder of George Floyd

A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 15 days in the county workhouse after pleading guilty to assaulting a Black man during the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by another officer in 2020.

Tou Thao speaks during his sentencing hearing in Hennepin County District Court on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minn. Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, has been sentenced to 4 years and 9 months, even as he denied wrongdoing. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

Ex-Minneapolis officer unrepentant as he gets nearly 5 years in George Floyd killing

Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, didn’t show any repentance or admit any wrongdoing as he was sentenced to nearly five years.

Kimberly Thompson, center, listens as Francis Howell School Board members talk in favor of rescinding all previously passed resolutions, including an anti-racism resolution, during a meeting on Thursday, July 20, 2023 in O'Fallon, Mo. In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly-white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a resolution promising to do better. Now, led by new conservative board members elected since last year, that resolution has been revoked.(David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Missouri school board that voted to drop anti-racism resolution might consider a revised version

The president of the Missouri school board that voted to revoke its anti-racism resolution now says the resolution could be kept, but revised.

FILE - A police 911 call center is pictured on May 3, 2019, in Dallas. Emergency call center workers say their centers are understaffed, struggling to hire new staff and plagued by worker burnout, according to a national survey released Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

911 workers say centers are understaffed, struggling to hire and plagued by burnout

Emergency call center workers say their centers are understaffed, struggling to fill vacancies and plagued by worker burnout.

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota on June 3, 2020, shows former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Chauvin’s request to hear his appeal of his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd, and his attorney said Wednesday, July 19, that they will now take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Minneapolis police reforms leader hired following George Floyd’s murder retiring after a year

The law enforcement veteran appointed to oversee reforms at the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s killing plans to retire in September.

FILE - People participate in a Caribbean-led Black Lives Matter rally on June 14, 2020, at Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza in New York. On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, New York City agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willen, File)

New York City agrees to pay $13 million to 2020 racial injustice protesters in historic class action

New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin was convicted in the killing of George Floyd. On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Chauvin’s request to hear his appeal of his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of Floyd, and his attorney said Wednesday, July 19, that they will now take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin to ask US Supreme Court to review his conviction in murder of George Floyd

An attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin says they’ll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his second-degree murder conviction in George Floyd’s killing.

FILE - Protesters hold signs as they march during a protest over the death of George Floyd in Chicago, May 30, 2020. Minneapolis must enact police reforms in the wake of George Floyd's murder under a settlement agreement with the state Human Rights Department approved by a local judge Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Judge approves Minneapolis police reform deal forged after George Floyd’s killing

Minneapolis must make policing changes under a newly approved settlement reached in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

FILE - Demonstrators gather outside Cup Foods to celebrate the murder conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of Floyd's death, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be in Minneapolis on Friday, June 16, 2023, “on a civil rights matter.” DOJ spokeswoman Dena Iverson on Thursday, June 15, declined to say if the police department investigation will be the subject of the news conference at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

6 key points from the scathing report on Minneapolis police after George Floyd’s killing

The Justice Department has issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints.

Attorney General Merrick Garland talks about a Department of Justice report that found the Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination during a news conference, Friday, June 16, 2023, in Minneapolis. The two-year probe found that Minneapolis officers used excessive force, including “unjustified deadly force,” and violated the rights of people engaged in constitutionally protected speech. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

George Floyd’s killing capped years of violence, discrimination by Minneapolis police, DOJ says

The Justice Department issued a withering critique of Minneapolis police, alleging that they systematically discriminated against racial minorities, often violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed.

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting with all of the U.S. Attorneys in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of George Floyd's death, Garland will be in Minneapolis on Friday, June 16, “on a civil rights matter.” DOJ spokeswoman Dena Iverson on Thursday, June 15, declined to say if the police department investigation will be the subject of the news conference at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

U.S. attorney general to visit Minneapolis for ‘civil rights matter’ announcement

Attorney General Merrick Garland is heading to Minneapolis to make an announcement in “a civil rights matter.”

FILE - Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on after the verdicts were read at Chauvin's trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, April 20, 2021. The third anniversary of Floyd’s murder is Thursday, May 25, 2023. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Prosecutors urge Minnesota Supreme Court to reject appeal by ex-officer in George Floyd’s murder

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — State prosecutors have urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request to reconsider his conviction for murdering George Floyd, saying lower courts already got it right.

Lawsuit alleges excessive force by police, false arrests, during George Floyd protest

Eleven people have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were assaulted by police or wrongfully arrested while peacefully observing a June 2020 protest in Massachusetts’ second-largest city over the killing of George Floyd.

FILE - In this June 12, 2020 file photo, a mourner signs a tribute wall during a memorial service for former Indiana University football player Chris Beaty in Indianapolis. Three people have been convicted in the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest in Indianapolis following the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy File)

Prosecutor: Trio convicted of murder in fatal shooting of former Indiana U football player

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three people have been convicted in the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest in Indianapolis following the death of George Floyd.

Tributes are displayed on the three-year anniversary of George Floyd's death at George Floyd Square, Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Anniversary of George Floyd’s killing: Changes were made, but short of ‘reckoning’ on racial justice

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing.

US Park Police used excessive force against journalists during George Floyd protests, inquiry finds

An internal investigation has concluded that U.S. Park Police used unnecessary force in a confrontation with two Australian journalists three years ago during the George Floyd protests near the White House.

FILE - Washington Metropolitan Police investigate near the Supreme Court and U.S. Capitol in Washington, Oct. 19, 2022. President Joe Biden on Thursday - the third anniversary of George Floyd's murder - vetoed an effort led by congressional Republicans to overturn a new District of Columbia law on improving police accountability. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

On 3rd anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Biden stops GOP-led effort to block DC police reform law

President Joe Biden on Thursday — the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder — vetoed an effort led by congressional Republicans to overturn new District of Columbia law on improving police accountability. part of a push to reform policing nationwide and passed in the wake of the police killing

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison stands outside the State Capitol in St. Paul, on Thursday, May 18, 2023, for an interview with The Associated Press on his new book, "Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence," will be released Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Minnesota prosecutors were so worried a judge would move the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin out of the city where he killed George Floyd that they conducted a mock trial in a deep red rural county to test their strategy, Ellison reveals in the new book. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Top prosecutor in trial of officer who killed George Floyd writes book recounting case

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison reveals in a new book how worried prosecutors were that a judge would move the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin out of the city where he killed George Floyd.

FILE - In this image from video, witness Donald Williams answers questions, March 29, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis during the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in connection with the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd. Williams, who watched as Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, killing him, sued the city on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, alleging he suffered emotional distress and was assaulted. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Man who witnessed George Floyd murder by police suing Minneapolis over officers’ actions

One of the most vocal bystanders who watched as a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd is suing the city, alleging he was assaulted and suffered emotional distress.