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A demonstrator tries to stop traffic along the Interstate 95 bridge during a protest over the death of Tyre Nichols, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Authorities released video footage Friday showing Nichols being beaten earlier this month by five Memphis police officers who held the Black motorist down and repeatedly struck him with their fists, boots and batons as he screamed for his mother. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian via AP)

Memphis beating video puts spotlight on first police account

By Mark Scolforo - Associated Press

Damarra Atkins pays respect to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, April 23, 2021. Minneapolis will buy the boarded-up Speedway gas station at George Floyd Square, the City Council decided unanimously on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. The area has become a protest site since Floyd, a Black man, was killed there by a white police officer in May 2020, sparking a national reckoning on racial injustice. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Minneapolis to buy gas station at site of Floyd’s killing

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Incumbent Governor Tim Walz debates gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen in the third and final gubernatorial debate at the Fitzgerald Theater, Oct. 28, 2022, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri, File)

Democrat Tim Walz wins 2nd term as Minnesota’s governor

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Protesters kneel in front of New York City Police Department officers before being arrested for violating curfew beside the iconic Plaza Hotel on 59th Street, Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in New York. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

States struggle with pushback after wave of policing reforms

By Denise Lavoie, Tatyana Monnay and Juliette Rihl - Associated Press

Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes answers question outside a polling place after voting early Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Democrats clamor for police union endorsements, but cops refused to back ‘defunders’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This combo of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, show Tou Thao, left, and J. Alexander Kueng. Keung has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd. The former police officer entered the plea Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, just as jury selection was about to begin in his trial. Jury selection for Thao was expected to begin later Monday. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Ex-Minneapolis cop pleads guilty in George Floyd killing

By Amy Forliti - Associated Press

Protesters gather calling for justice for George Floyd on May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis. More than two years after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police, the city is struggling to rebuild its police department after hundreds of officers quit the force. An informational meeting for potential recruits attended by The Associated Press offers a glimpse of the challenges in restoring a force down by one-third at one point. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP, file)

Minneapolis, city where George Floyd was killed, struggles to recruit cops

By Trisha Ahmed - Associated Press

In this Nov. 17, 2019, file photo, Kanye West appears on stage during a service at Lakewood Church in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)

George Floyd’s family threatens Kanye West with lawsuit for saying fentanyl killed Floyd, not police

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A person reacts near Cup Foods in Minneapolis after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Texas board denies posthumous pardon for George Floyd

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. Former Minneapolis police Officer Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday, July 21, 2022, that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file)

Ex-cop Thomas Lane faces sentencing in George Floyd killing

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis June 25, 2021. A federal judge sentenced the former officer to to 21 years on Thursday, July 7, 2022, for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd during the sentencing in St. Paul, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Chauvin gets 21 years for violating Floyd’s civil rights

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

FILE - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis June 25, 2021. A federal judge will sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Thursday, July 7, 2022, for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson on Tuesday, July 5, set Chauvin's sentencing hearing for 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Paul. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-cop Derek Chauvin to get federal sentence for Floyd’s killing

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

The Democratic Party of Violence Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Jan. 6 Democrats praised Portland, White House insurrectionists

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, back, help Herman Shaw, 94, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study victim, during a news conference on May 16, 1997. Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public in 1972 and halted, Manhattan-based philanthropy organization Milbank Memorial Fund is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)

New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis study

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, at Turner Field in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Obama ripped for tying George Floyd’s death to Texas school massacre

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times