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The latest updates on protests over the killing of George Floyd: reut.rs/3gG1c8s
Watch live: George Floyd’s family to visit site of fatal arrest bit.ly/2yYtaLp
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's charge will be elevated to second-degree murder and the three other former officers will also be charged in the George Floyd case, Minnesota Senator Klobuchar confirms reut.rs/300MUZZ
UPDATE: Court documents show three former officers are charged with aiding and abetting murder in the George Floyd case and Derek Chauvin's charge has been elevated to second-degree murder reut.rs/300MUZZ
Minnesota's attorney general requests $1 million bail for all four officers involved in George Floyd's death, issues arrest warrants for three outstanding officers reut.rs/300MUZZ
One of the three newly-charged officers in the George Floyd case is in custody and the other two are in the process of being taken into custody, a Minnesota official says reut.rs/300MUZZ
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Protesters in Minneapolis vented rage over the death of George Floyd after a white police officer knelt on his neck as he lay on the ground following arrest. The mayor ordered a tactical police retreat from a police station that was set ablaze reut.rs/3etMLSJ 1/3
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