The Latest Breaking News from George Floyd

High court offers bonuses, debt relief to lure police hires

Supreme Court police officers are looking for a few good men and women — as are law enforcement departments around the country in a tight employment market

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023

'Black on Black' celebrates Black culture while exploring history and racial tension

Daniel Black's essays call for an overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system, of the Black church, of the way Black people see themselves, and of the country itself — and do so with authority

WEKU · Feb 2, 2023

Commentary: What finally sunk me on the Memphis videos? 5 Black officers’ embrace of racist depravity

This one hurts.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 2, 2023

What time is Tyre Nichols’ funeral and who is attending?

Black FedEx driver who died from his injuries after being savagely beaten by police officers to be laid to rest in Memphis, Tennessee, with US vice president and civil rights leaders in attendance

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

'We're all Tyre': Family prepares to lay Nichols to rest

The family of Tyre Nichols plans to lay him to rest Wednesday, three weeks after he died following a brutal beating by Memphis police after a traffic stop

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

Ghosts of police reform past haunt a newly divided Congress

The release of footage showing Memphis, Tennessee, police officers violently beating Tyre Nichols has renewed calls for Congress to pass police reform legislation

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

Editorial: Nichols' death shows complexities of police violence — and urgency of reform

The fact that the five Memphis former police officers accused in the beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols are themselves Black could actually clarify the issue of police violence, which is more complicated than just a few bigoted white cops. It highlights that policing in America is in desperate…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 1, 2023

Tyre Nichols' funeral in Memphis brings calls for justice

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy, called for justice for Nichols and lamented the fact that Nichols was killed in the same city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

WEKU · Feb 1, 2023

Helen Ubiñas: The Tyre Nichols video and the overdue promise of police reform

I guess they expected us to be grateful for the warning.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 1, 2023

Editorial: Message from Memphis: Policing is more than Black and white

Along with our heartfelt sympathies for their loss, we extend our gratitude and admiration to the family of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old father who died three days after a sickeningly savage police beating in Memphis on Jan. 7.

Chicago Tribune · Feb 1, 2023