Mr Chauvin was arrested last month, having first been
sacked, and was at first charged with third-degree murder and second-degree
manslaughter. But prosecutors, last week, upped the charges to a second-degree
murder.
His other three accomplices — Thomas Lane, J. Alexander
Kueng and Tou Thao — were all fired too, before being charged with aiding and
abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree
manslaughter, court records show.
George Floyd’s death a fortnight ago has poked a major
global agitation against police brutality and racial discrimination across the
globe.
What started as a protest in Minneapolis — where an unarmed
Mr Floyd was slayed with his body pinned to the floor by three policemen as he
gasped for breathe — quickly spread across the United States before going
global.
Some streets across the global have drawn large crowds,
despite movement restrictions and lockdown in some of them.
The demonstrations, in some states in the U S., were
particularly accompanied with violence, looting and vandalism with thousands of
arrests and injuries recorded.
Although the unrest has since ebbed, the protesters say “no
justice, no peace” as they demand justice for victims of police extrajudicial
killings in their country, especially against the blacks, who are allegedly
more likely to be killed than whites.
As a result of the protest, last week, an adjoining building
to the White House was named Black Lives Matter Plaza, and the term was
engraved on a road leading to the nation’s seat of power.
Thousands of guests are expected to attend Mr Floyd’s third and final memorial service Monday in Houston, where he grew up.
This will be followed by a funeral service and burial Tuesday in Pearland, a suburb in Houston, KTVT reported, and Mr Floyd will be laid to rest next to his mother thereafter.
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