Police on Trial: two years after the killing of George Floyd, what has changed?

‘It’s not a simple conversation to have and it’s important for every city to constantly keep figuring this out.’ Photograph: PBS

Journalist Libor Jany was working a holiday shift when he received a cryptic text message from a police spokesperson about a press conference outside city hall.

“Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and realised that the suspect was suffering a medical distress,” John Elder of Minneapolis police told reporters. “Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin county medical center where he died a short time later.”