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...Adams was pilloried by progressives when he urged restraint following Neely’s death....
...Lives: From Generation to Generation project, initiated by Brussels-based producer Stefany Calembert, was an immediate musical response to the social tensions that surfaced following the murder of George Floyd...
...It is worth keeping in mind that Blue dates from before the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed....
...“After the [George] Floyd case, people were so terrified by what they saw that they said: ‘Take everything away from public safety.’ But there were those of us who said, ‘No....
...Such units specialise in seizing illegal guns but were disbanded by the previous mayor, Bill de Blasio, in the protests that followed Floyd’s death....
...There will be four themes: “Earth” will look at the climate crisis through premieres by Julia Wolfe and pioneering American nature composer John Luther Adams; “Spirit” will appeal to the spiritual in humanity...
...As with other big US cities, there were mass protests in New York two years ago following the police murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd....
...If New York mayor Eric Adams gets his way, Dimon will also be forced to ride the subway to work....
...This is a post-George Floyd novel, and it takes on a variety of challenging issues, but Connelly has never shied away from such things, always dealing with them in a nuanced and balanced fashion....
...The relationship worsened following protests prompted by the police murder in Minnesota of George Floyd in May 2020....
...In Eric Adams, New York has elected a former police officer and crime hawk to run it. The fall in crime since the 1990s was one of the most profound social trends since the second world war....
...Recently, demonstrators have taken to the streets again to protest against the killings of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo and Ma’Khia Bryant — three names out of dozens of people killed by the police across...
...New York elected Eric Adams, a former police captain, as its mayor last year, while San Francisco’s London Breed pledged to be “more aggressive” in fighting crime....
...In New York City’s mayoral race, Democrat Eric Adams defeated Republican Curtis Sliwa. Adams’ victory was widely anticipated given the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate....
...For those advocating only incremental reforms, he noted that the Minneapolis Police Department had undergone its own overhaul before Floyd’s murder....
...The scene of Floyd’s death was so appalling that 17-year-old Darnella Frazier stopped to film it....
...Most of last year’s leap took place after George Floyd’s murder in late May....
...“After everything with George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, I said to him: ‘Granddad, do you think it is different this time?’ And he said: ‘I actually think that it is.’...
...We are talking while what she calls the “ultimate terrible spectre” of the George Floyd trial is under way in a Minneapolis courtroom. And yet her choices in art are, she says, driven by joy....
...Adams rejected activists’ calls to “defund” the police and instead promised to send more officers into the streets to tame raging gun violence....
...Voters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, rejected a proposal to disband the city’s police department, 18 months after George Floyd was killed there....
...Adam Kanzer, head of stewardship for the Americas for BNP Paribas Asset Management, said it had been a “historic proxy season”....
...that following the killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month by a Chicago police officer: “What we’re asking for is the same thing we’ve been asking for years . . ....
...The appeal of its approach is even more evident at a time when the police murder of George Floyd and other abuses have turned public sentiment against aggressive law enforcement and prompted a search for...
...Conversation with Adam Grant is peppered with what he and his students call “ahas” — to denote “eureka” moments and insights....
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