Articles Tagged: George Floyd

“Minnesota is a microcosm of a lot of the tensions we have in our society,” a political scientist at Hamline University in St. Paul says.

Iowa City’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is now memorialized in a final report that outlines a list of policy and program recommendations including stricter enforcement of antidiscrimination laws, ongoing funding to support racial equity efforts, research focused on housing discrimination and additional programs for community healing.

Cities across Eastern Iowa are contemplating how best to promote transparency and community engagement in policing in light of a new state law outlawing most citizen review boards.

Thousands took to the streets in 2020 to push for racial justice and equity, but area activists say the work didn’t stop there.

While former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance have been hammering Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his response to the violence that erupted after George Floyd’s murder, Trump told the governor at the time that he fully agreed with how Walz handled it.

Over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other means not intended to be lethal, an investigation led by The Associated Press found. In hundreds of cases, officers weren’t taught or didn’t follow best safety practices for this force, creating a recipe for death.

Every day, police rely on common tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them, such as physical holds, Tasers and body blows. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death.

DES MOINES -- A Des Moines City Council member is countersuing two police officers who took the unusual step earlier this year of suing several people who participated in a 2020 protest following a Minneapolis officer's killing of

The conversation is the fifth in a series titled Community Conversation: Oracles of Iowa City.

An Iowa City man, who helped organize Black Lives Matter protests, pleaded guilty Tuesday to lesser charges for injuring police officers by shining laser beams in their eyes during 2020 protest after George Floyd’s death.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple's home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year.

Iowa State Patrol troopers, who stop more than 150,000 motorists a year, provide security at the Iowa State Capitol and staff high-profile events including RAGBRAI, don’t wear body cameras. Why not?

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22½ years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.

The Gazette asked people throughout the region: “In the year since the death of George Floyd, what has changed in your community?” Here, in their words, are their answers.

Event will be held on at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 25, on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer.