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#BREAKING Time has come to hold police accountable: Sharpton at Floyd memorial
Some 50,000 people demonstrated at a Black Lives Matter rally in Austria, one of a wave of global anti-racism protests sparked by the death of African American George #Floyd during his arrest

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#UPDATE At the Minneapolis memorial service, mourners observed 8:46 min of silence - the length of time that police white officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on George #Floyd 's neck, including for 2:53 after he became unresponsive
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Hundreds of mourners jeered remarks by Bill de Blasio at a vigil for the late George #Floyd, after the New York mayor defended heavy handed policing of protesters defying the city's curfew
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#UPDATE "It was not the #coronavirus pandemic that killed George #Floyd," said Benjamin Crump, an attorney representing Floyd's family. "It was that other pandemic. The pandemic of #racism and discrimination"
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Prince Harry's wife Meghan Markle admitted she was nervous about breaking her silence on the demos sweeping the United States, but said in a video message she "realized the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing" about the death of George #Floyd
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