George Floyd

Three years after the murder of George Floyd, police departments are still tackling calls for reform. Prince George’s County’s police chief told News4’s Darcy Spencer changing policing is only part of the solution.

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing.

News4’s Erika Gonzalez spoke with Howard University law professor Justin Hansford about police reform three years after the murder of George Floyd.

A judge has found a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Tou Thao was last of the four former officers facing judgment in Floyd’s killing.

The former Minneapolis police officer serving time for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion. Derek Chauvin entered the plea Friday in a Minnesota court before Washington County Judge Sheridan Hawley. Chauvin appeared via Zoom from a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. Chauvin and his now ex-wife were charged with multiple counts...

In court papers late Tuesday, the city said it will pay $21,500 to each of at least 200 protesters who were detained, arrested or met with force by NYPD during a June 4, 2020, protest.

An attorney for Derek Chauvin has asked an appeals court to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd.

The former Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s back as one of his colleagues pinned the Black man’s neck to the pavement is being sentenced on a state count.

J. Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd while ex-officer Tou Thao agreed to waive a jury trial

In a recent interview with the podcast “Drink Champs,” Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, questioned the cause of George Floyd’s death, falsely suggesting it was due to fentanyl use.

A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.

Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing told a judge that they have rejected plea deals that would have resulted in three-year sentences. The statements from Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng on Monday at a brief hearing in Minneapolis set the stage for trial in October. The pair are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree...

Three former Minneapolis police officers went before a federal judge during the last week to be sentenced for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, and for each man, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson handed out penalties well below what prosecutors sought and below federal guidelines.

J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years and Tou Thao got a 3 1/2-year sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights during his May 2020 killing.

A judge has sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd.

A U.S. district judge made the decision Thursday. The former police officer is already serving a 22.5-year sentence after he was found guilty in a state case of second- and third-degree murder.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, a move that adds a few years to the time the former Minneapolis police officer is already serving for his murder conviction while transferring him to federal custody.

Federal prosecutors want a judge to sentence one of the four former Minneapolis police officers convicted of civil rights violations in George Floyd’s killing to as many as 6 1/2 years in prison, but to impose stiffer sentences on two others.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to sentence a former Minneapolis officer to 25 years for violating the rights of George Floyd, saying Derek Chauvin’s actions were cold-blooded and needless as he knelt on the Black man’s neck while Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to violating Floyd’s rights, admitting for the first...

Floyd’s death sparked protests across the country and cries to defund the police, but what has changed? News4’s Pat Muses spoke with Sara Clarke Kaplan, executive director of American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center.