Four days after a Minnesota police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd and him dying, Minneapolis was rocked by violent protests that are now reverberating …
Four days after a Minnesota police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd and him dying, Minneapolis was rocked by violent protests that are now reverberating throughout the nation. On Friday afternoon, since-fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Floyd.
Community leaders and public officials in Ohio and the Greater Cincinnati have weighed in on the incident and its aftermath.
Yvette Simpson, Democracy for America CEO and former city councilwoman, wrote in a statement on Friday that the president’s reaction to the uprising in Minneapolis is, “by every measure, racist hypocrisy that encourages and invites a violent reaction.”
Rev. Damon Lynch III: “It was heartbreaking. They treated him as if he was subhuman.”
Newtown Police Chief Tom Synan, in a Facebook and Twitter post: “To see the callousness, the inhumanity and the indifference that the officer had, there’s no other way to put it, but just horrific.” To use force above the shoulders, “it goes against everything that officers are taught.
