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(Fact checked links in my bio)
👉🏾Within 10 days of sustained protests: Minneapolis bans use of choke holds.
👉🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
👉🏾Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
👉🏾New Jersey’s attorney general said the state will update its use-of-force guidelines for the first time in two decades.
👉🏾In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.
👉🏾Los Angeles City Council introduces motion to reduce LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
👉🏾New York Governor Andrew Cuomo urging state lawmakers to enact 911 “Amy Cooper” False Accusation Bill.
👉🏾NYC Mayor announcement to defund police and to reallocate those funds to community programs and social services.
👉🏾 Minneapolis City Council announced they were seeking to dismantle the city’s police department.
👉🏾 New York is seeking to reform Civil Rights Law 50-a-disclosure of police personnel performance & disciplinary records
👉🏾Police brutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., Buffalo, Ft. Lauderdale).
👉🏾 Denver Colorado banned the use of chokeholds. Officers will also have to report to a supervisor any time they intentionally point a fire on at someone while on the job.
👉🏾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Orleans, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia).
👉🏾Mayor of Washington D.C. renamed the street outside the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”
👉🏾Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C.
👉🏾 American companies have donated millions into the advancement of black communities.
Not to mention…
💓 Difficult public and private conversations that are happening about race and privilege.
💓Realizations that some white people are coming to about racism and the role of policing in this country.
Fact check sources:
https://apnews.com/ce3c4c56b683ae47d26bec1045a35fb7
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/07/us/george-floyd-protests-sunday/index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials#
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Monument_(New_Orleans,_Louisiana)
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