[UPDATE: Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman just announced Derek Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.]
White Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested for the killing of 46-year-old black man George Floyd, according to CBSN Minnesota.
On Friday (May 29), commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety John Harrington announced Chauvin was taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
While it’s unclear what charges Chauvin will face, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has scheduled a press conference at 1 p.m. CST concerning a “major development” in the case.
Floyd was pronounced dead at Hennepin County Medical Center on Monday (May 25) shortly after Chauvin had his knee on his neck for roughly four minutes as Floyd struggled to breathe on the ground.
Hip Hop Demands Justice For George Floyd As Nationwide Riots Erupt
In a viral video of the incident, Floyd repeatedly shouts, “I can’t breathe!” as bystanders plead with Chauvin to stop. In the wake of his death, protests and riots have erupted across the country.
No word currently on how the other three officers involved in the incident will be handled.
This story is developing.
We’ve got to fight the powers that be!
Dirtty lice head crackkka
I WANNA KILL SAM!
It’s BIGGER THAN HIP-HOP!!!!!!!!
Do you honestly expect the people who visit this website to understand that though?
This is the American way. Kill a black person and justify it. SMH
He got fired and is now being charged with murder. As he should be. Shouldn’t have happened to begin with. I think we all can agree on that. But, explain to me that way of thinking? How is this the “American way” to you? All I see in these comments is mostly racism against whites. There’s video that isn’t going around on mainstream media of someone yelling from a car to “shoot white folk”. They have to go through the process to arrest and try him for murder. Looks like an open and shut case to me based in the video. The now ex-Officer is now going to go through the courts. I need to understand why people need to destroy their own communities of stores that make their communities better. And don’t say it’s strictly for this. All those people don’t know George Floyd. Looks like people that want handouts and an excuse to get them.
Handouts? You think people are protesting in the streets over handouts? Innocent black men are getting murdered in the streets by police with no consequences and you’re talking about “racism against whites”…. Please slow down, stop thinking and just listen. Have some empathy and imagine if that was your father or son how you’d feel. You may find the understanding you say you need
Racist whites need 2 realize they dont need 2 do shit if they want to elimating black ppl. Just sit back let the gangs do it 4 them when this is all over.. since obv black ppl dont care bc ‘they go to jail’ while families grieve 4 a lifetime.
What would you call the looting they’re doing? The cops are doing anything because they are being attacked. Doesn’t help that the local government there is condoning what they are doing because they are consumed by white guilt. I do have empathy for a family’s loss. Someone’s life was needlessly taken by a cop who looked to used deadly force while covering it up to be the force he deemed necessary. Don’t try to talk down to me because I don’t agree with the racial aspect of this. Because honestly that’s what it’s being made out to be more so than a bad cop killing an unarmed human being. Sorry that I don’t agree with the liberal mindset that it at play here. They are clearly looting. You mean to tell me all those people destroying property and stealing are all family members? I bet 95% of the people don’t even know who he is. Let alone what happened.
Racially motivated police killings and the looting or destruction of property are two separate issues. Each one constitutes a separate crime hence they must be dealt with separately. In order of priority, anything to do the murder of a human being takes precedence over the damage of property particularly where there is a cause and effect situation like the one we have in George Floyd’s case. The fact that you are choosing to look at it backwards is a cause for concern. The familial relations you speak of are irrelevant in the eyes of the law. Each individual caught will be prosecuted regardless of their link to the family.
Two separate issues, yeah. But one is caused by the other. Also, we have yet to prove this is a racially motivated killing. Like everyone else, you are quick to jump to that when that hasn’t been proven. Stop trying to make it ok to destroy property of other people who have nothing to do with the original case. How am I looking at it backwards? Cause I don’t agree with the narrative that is being pushed? We should be fighting against the obvious police brutality. If it is proven to be a racially motivated killing then we can proceed with that. Everything you said was as irrelevant as the last statement you made in your entire argument. You’re going to get cavities drinking the same koolaid as everyone else who refuses to challenge the media for information malpractice. Forget picking up a book. Use a search engine.
Im going to be very very interested w see if T.I shows up to atl protests or hes the pussy behind social media i think he is
Are you gonna be there? Have you attended a protest? We wouldn’t know because who in the hell are? You can sit there and call another man out instead of worrying about doing YOUR PART!!
‘Bc who in the hell are u’..exactly punk u have NO idea who i am or what im doing. Dont worry about what i do white boy. This between me and ppl influencing my comm to riot.. mind ya business crakkka
You’re the racist obviously, white boy, cracka? So it’s ok for you to call white people names but they aren’t the same as n***er right? Black people spread racism more than ever, it’s disgraceful
You’re so gay for TI. Admit it lol
What about the 3 other criminals involved. Everyone needs to be charged with murder. Now the real test is if they actually get convicted. #FTP
They said it was for the black man
They said it was for the Mexican, and not for the white man
But if you look at the street, it wasn’t about Rodney King
And this fucked up situation, and these fucked up police
It’s about coming up and staying on top
And screaming, “187 on a motherfuckin’ cop”
-Bradley Nowell
I call upon someone to kill eminem. Universe make it happen!
Its about time i hope he get life without the chance to get parole and the other three should be indicted too for letting it happen i hope when he goes to prison they beat his ass severely too the point he wish he died or better yet put their knees in his neck til he stop breathing fxck racist ass cops Wake up my black people and break this willie lynch curse that we’re in for the last 300 years
I hope his entire family gets wacked. Kids included. Like Pac said “FUCK all you white people!”
Cool … then why should white people care? Seems like you are just as racist as the cop … so are mad that they are better at being racist than you?
235 black men were killed by the police in 2019 in the ENTIRE United States of America. In that same time frame, 475 black men were murdered by other black men in Chicago alone. No protests for that? Is it OK for white people in Chicago to protest against killings and what is being done to their communities by black youth? Of course not. You would be generalizing about an entire demographic due to the actions of a few, or in this case, a whole lot. SMH. Keep this up. Trump is a guaranteed show in for the next election with this bullshit going on.
White people are DEVIL
and black people are ignorant.
See how that got nothing accomplished. You’re stupid race comments are only going to make things worse. Stop playing into what they want you to.
All cops are pieces of shit. Black pigs, Mexican pigs are easily the most racists of all breeds of pigs, Asian pigs suck, Male & female pigs are all the same…
Until you realize that and stop playing into what the media keeps portraying you’re a big problem than they are because you’re one of their sheep
First off you idiot all of thrm people were noy black and all the victims were killed by thier race idiot. White on white crines happens in chicago so the only people not being killed there is black…stfu…most murders are done by your own race…clown.