On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined a plea from Derek Chauvin, an ex-police officer from Minnesota who was previously held culpable for George Floyd's death in 2020.

The jury reached a verdict Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.

Jury selection in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death began Tuesday with the first potential juror excused after she revealed during questioning that she thought the way the officer acted was “not fair.”

The literary and free expression organization PEN America honored Darnella Frazier, the quick-thinking and dauntless young woman who filmed the murder of George Floyd, with the 2020 PEN/Benenson Courage Award.

Minneapolis agreed Friday to ban chokeholds by police and to require officers to try to stop any other officers they see using improper force, in the first concrete steps to remake the city’s police department since George Floyd’s death.

Protesters stirred by the death of George Floyd vowed Friday to turn an extraordinary outpouring of grief into a sustained movement as demonstrations shifted to a calmer, but no less determined focus on addressing racial injustice.