Black Voices
The speaker of the House of Representatives made the widely criticized comment soon after a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering Floyd.
Supporters of George Floyd cheered after Chauvin, a former police officer, was found guilty of murder.
They want to make it "easier to vote, harder to cheat." Who cheated?
"Did I strike a nerve?" the Florida Democrat, who's a former police officer, shouted at her Republican colleague.
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Tubman spent part of her childhood in the cabin before escaping slavery and leading others to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Michael Slager told the judge that he was never made aware of a plea deal that would have cut years off his sentence for the 2015 shooting of Walter Scott.
The jury took roughly 10 hours to reach a verdict in the former Minneapolis police officer's high-profile trial.
“There was a mix of the scary and the absurd ― MAGA in a nutshell,” said “The Daily Show” correspondent.
The white former police officer was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, a Black man.
The Democratic lawmaker called for protesters "to get more confrontational" at a weekend Minnesota rally.