Movement For Black Lives Protests Around The World

Faced With COVID-19 and the ramifications of four years of Trumpism, Black communities are demanding: justice; accountability; a divestment from policing; and an investment in healthy, sustainable communities.

Protesters hold up signs on June 3, 2020, during a “Breonna Taylor and Black Lives Matter” protest in New York City, after the recent death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd. – Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on the neck of George Floyd, a black man who later died, will now be charged with second-degree murder, and his three colleagues will also face charges, court documents revealed on June 3. The May 25 death of George Floyd — who had been accused of trying to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit bill — has ignited protests across the United States over systemic racism and police brutality. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

By Movement For Black Lives · Updated December 6, 2020

In response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless other Black people who have been killed at the hands of vigilantes or law enforcement, millions have taken to the streets with a clear and distinct call to end police violence and to defund police. Combined with COVID-19 and four years of Trumpism, Black communities are demanding: justice; accountability; a divestment from policing; and an investment in healthy, sustainable communities.

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